August Cicadas [caption id="attachment_1506" align="alignnone" width="750"] 17 year periodical cicada[/caption] Life in the thick heat of late summer moves to the soundtrack of the dronning cicada. Though the hum surrounds us, there's often little known about the cicada's life cycle and the details of their habits. Wisconsin has nine known species of cicada but worldwide there are approximately 1500 known cicada species. The one pictured above - the 17 year periodical cicada - is perhaps most famous because adults mature and emerge in a ...Continue Reading →