Cicadas May Be Emerging Earlier Due To Climate Change

Chicago IL

28 April, 2021

5:17 PM

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CHICAGO (CBS) — Parts of the area are preparing to hear that loud buzz saw noise from the 17-year "Brood X" cicadas and it is expected to happen earlier than past years due to spring-time air and soil temperatures that have increased several degrees over the past 50 years. According to CBS 2 meteorologist Tammie Souza, since 1970 the average emergence date of cicadas is days and weeks earlier from the Midwest to the east coast. In Chicago they arrive four days earlier and in South Bend, Indiana they arrive seven days earlier and in many areas along the east coast and deep south the cicadas are seen nearly a month earlier than 50 years ago. Read more at CBS Chicago RELATED: 'A 4 Week Bender:' A Million Cicadas Coming to Downstate Illinois