Illinois
When are the Illinois cicadas coming?
When are the Illinois cicadas coming?
Soon, but not quite yet.
CBS News associate producer Maddy Wierus went on a baby cicada hunt last week in Champaign, Ill., with the University of Illinois entomologist Dr. Katie Dana.
Baby cicadas found in Champaign
After a bit of digging, Dana found three or four nymphs several inches underground.
“Oh, wait, I see that guy!” Dana said. “He’s down in the hole! Oh my gosh. I’m pretty sure unless that’s a beetle.”
After a closer inspection, it wasn’t a beetle. It was actually a cicada, not quite ready to emerge.
“It’s butt sticking out of the hole there,” Dana said. “So you can see there’s at least three or four there.”
Dana said the soil is warming a bit faster than she would like.
When will cicadas emerge in Illinois?
However, based on the bug’s color, these little guys still have some time to spend in the soil before their big reveal, Dana said.
There are two groups of periodical cicadas — those that emerge every 13 years and those that emerge every 17 years. For most of their lives, cicadas live underground and emerge once the soil reaches 64 degrees.
Because they are temperature-dependent, cicada emergences may vary depending on the location. In 2024, they are expected sometime in May or early June, according to Ken Johnson, a horticulture educator at the University of Illinois.
Illinois
Illinois State House bill aims to give student teachers stipends
The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would provide student teachers $10,000 stipends per semester for up to two consecutive semesters.
The bill, H.B. 4652, passed 85 to 23 and is currently subject to appropriation, meaning it will not be implemented until the underlying costs are funded.
Under H.B. 4652, educators eligible to receive stipends must be registered as student teachers by July 1 of each year beginning in 2025. If passed by the state Senate, the bill will also provide $2,000 stipends to licensed teachers who advise student teachers.
State Rep. Barbara Hernandez (D-Aurora) sponsored the bill.
“It’s a pretty much unpaid internship, and they put a lot of hours into this program to receive nothing,” Hernandez said during the House debate on the bill Tuesday.
State Rep. Blaine Wilhour (R-Louisville), an opponent of the bill, argued that it’s not the government’s responsibility to fund stipends.
During Tuesday’s House debate, Wilhour said teachers’ unions should fund such programs.
“Teachers’ unions specifically have plenty of money that they’re more than happy to throw around in political races,” Wilhour said.
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1 dead after motorcycle hits school bus in Will County, Illinois
MINOOKA, Ill. (CBS) — A motorcycle hit a school bus near Minooka Wednesday afternoon, leaving the operator of the motorcycle dead.
At 3:17 p.m., Will County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the 24000 block of West Shepley Road in unincorporated Troy Township near Minooka.
The sheriff’s office said a school bus with 15 kids on board was stopped on Shepley Road, when a two-person motorcycle slammed into the back of the bus after it dropped off a child.
The man on the motorcycle died. The woman suffered serious injuries, but was conscious when she was taken to an area hospital.
The children on the bus were not injured. They were removed from the scene and their parents and caretakers were contacted, the sheriff’s office said.
Illinois
Cicadas may emerge earlier in Illinois as climate changes, experts say
As Illinois awaits a massive, rare double-brood emergence of cicadas, entomological research shows that the insects may come earlier.
This year, two ‘periodical’ cicada species—Brood XIII and Brood XIX— will emerge simultaneously. Maps of Illinois show where each brood is expected to flourish.
According to Jennifer Rydzewski of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, brood XIII occurs in the Chicago area only every 17 years, while Brood XIX occurs every 13 years.
“So the 13-year and 17-year life cycles only align every 221 years,” Rydzewski told CBS Chicago in an e-mail.
“Periodical cicadas have typically emerged in late May or early June in northern Illinois,” said Dr. Ken Johnson of the University of Illinois. However, because of the urban heat island, that might happen earlier in Chicago.
How will cicada behavior change?
But as Chicago bakes in its third-warmest year on record, is a species directly cued by soil temperatures warming to 64 degrees being affected by the warming climate? Some cicadas were reported last week in the northwest suburbs.
According to the University of Connecticut’s Climate Change and Periodical Cicadas, “All available evidence indicates that the climate is warming and precipitation patterns are changing, and because some parts of the periodical cicada life cycle seem sensitive to these factors, it follows that these insects will be affected by climate change.”
That study predicts that warming climates will cause periodical cicada emergences to start earlier in the year since spring will arrive earlier as the climate warms. Climate-related disruption of the cues periodical cicadas use to pick their year of emergence will lead to an increase in unexpected, oddly-timed emergences or even the breakdown of these insects’ periodicity.
The study mentions notable off-cycle emergences have already occurred, such as the unexpected emergence of Brood X cicadas in 2017.
“It’s possible we are a few days ahead of schedule this year due to the warming climate, but we definitely need more data and analysis,” Dr. Catherine Dana of the Illinois Natural History Survey said.
Periodical cicadas’ long life cycles and rare emergences make gathering that data a lengthy process – but the periodical cicada mapping project is trying to accomplish that goal.
However, as the Connecticut study states, “It will take a while to collect the data, and the project involves multiple generations… of cicadas and researchers alike.”
How long will cicadas be around in Illinois?
Periodical cicadas spend most of their time living underground, feeding on tree roots. Once the soil warms enough, they begin to emerge above ground.
According to the University of Illinois, adult cicadas spend most of their time above ground reproducing. Male cicadas start singing four or five days after they emerge.
After mating, the female cicadas will lay their eggs, about 500 to 600 each.
The adult cicadas will begin to die after about a month. That should happen before outdoor Ravinia Festival concerts kick into high gear.
When will periodical cicadas emerge again in Illinois after 2024?
About six to ten weeks after they are laid, the eggs begin to hatch. The tiny cicada nymphs drop to the ground and begin feeding, often on grass roots.
Eventually, they dig into the soil about 8 to 12 inches deep and feed on tree roots for 13 to 17 years.
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