Cicadas

There was a surprising star of the Owensboro Multicultural Festival over the weekend. A molting cicada set up shop at one of the exhibitor booths and put on quite a show.

The signature of a good and hot summer in Kentucky and throughout the South is the occasional yet sometimes constant din of a brood of cicadas. I mean if it's hot, they are humming like crazy.

Have you seen cicadas, their shells everywhere? I haven't seen a single one yet; but to be honest, I've been forgetting to look. As for their familiar buzzing, I've only heard them twice, and both times I was driving through Ohio County.

Brood X cicadas are the big insect story for 2021. But there's a chance Owensboro may not see ANY of them.

Have you ever wondered what a cicada looks like as it breaks free from its shell? Here are some incredible photos of one doing it!

I don't know a more familiar sound in the late spring/summer than the drone and the buzz of cicadas. I know the weather is a lot warmer, even humid when the buzzing is there. And when the buzzing all but ceases, all that's left of the insect is a hollow shell that is very crunchy. So why is this upcoming brood so talked about?