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\n FOREST PARK, Illinois (AP) \u2014 Mayumi Barrack sees a pair of mating periodical cicadas getting together, whips out her phone, says, \u201cHi guys!\u201d and takes their picture.\u201cI\u2019m not really a bug person, but as I look more and more I feel they are adorable,\u201d Barrack explained, noting that many other creatures \u2014 birds, squirrels, raccoons and more \u2014 are just as eager to get close to the bugs, if only to turn them into food. \u201cI just want to document they existed.\u201dAnd boy has she. Barrack has posted more than 4,600 photos of the bugs on the Cicada Safari app for cicada enthusiasts. That\u2019s 2,000 more than her nearest competitor. She\u2019s the queen of cicada chasers, though she doesn\u2019t really chase \u2014 most of the pictures are from her backyard \u2014 and she sees herself more as a mother to the bugs than as a queen.\u201cI\u2019m caring for them,\u201d said Barrack, standing in her tree-and-flower filled suburban Chicago backyard.<\/p>\n
Mayumi Barrack photographs periodical cicadas on a fence in her backyard, Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Forest Park, Ill. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n
An adult periodical cicada crawls along a fence in Mayumi Barrack\u2019s backyard in Forest Park, Ill., Thursday, June 6, 2024. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n
Periodical cicadas are strange, with eccentricities that include super-strong urine flow and a zombie fungus infection. But their superfans are unusual, too, or at least highly passionate.<\/p>\n
Gene Kritsky, a professor of biology at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, has been working toward this year\u2019s massive cicada emergence for decades. He first heard about cicadas in 1972 and has been studying and chasing them since 1974. He wrote the book on the current emergence, \u201cA Tale of Two Broods.\u201d He also created the cicada tracking app that enthusiasts like Barrack use to post pictures and find where the bugs are in large numbers.<\/p>\n
A periodical cicada nymph clings to the tip of a twig on late Friday, May 17, 2024, in Charleston, Ill. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n
An adult cicada periodical cicada sheds its nymphal skin late Friday, May 17, 2024, in Charleston, Ill. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n
This is the third time Kritsky has mapped Brood XIII of the cicadas. That\u2019s quite an accomplishment since they only come out every 17 years.Often wearing a safari hat that makes him look like the Indiana Jones of cicadas, which he has been called, Kritsky and his artist wife Jessee Smith have driven back and forth from Ohio to Illinois several times this spring to revel in the bugs. Over several long nights at a forest north of Chicago, he\u2019s seen massive numbers including his first one-in-a-million blue-eyed cicada. He cited the May 24 emergence as \u201cincredible\u201d with thousands coming out that night at his location.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeriodical cicadas are the gateway drug to natural history,\u201d Kritsky said.<\/p>\n
A blue-eyed periodical cicada is held in a gloved hand at the Morton Arboretum on Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Lisle, Ill. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n
For New York City chef Joseph Yoon, cicadas aren\u2019t just amazing, they\u2019re dinner. His Brooklyn Bugs company is on a mission to spread the word about the taste and sustainability of edible insects, though he knows many people are grossed out by the thought.Yoon spent nine days in Illinois collecting, freezing and then bagging tens of thousands of cicadas. After getting back home, he served up tempura cicada to 400 people at a Syracuse University event. Yoon said collecting and cooking cicadas \u201cis quite painful for me because I love the cicada so much.\u201dBut he added: \u201cAt the same I also can acknowledge and appreciate that each one of these cicadas\u2019 lives represents a potential to transform somebody\u2019s perception or opinion about eating insects.\u201d<\/p>\n
Declan Minogue, 10, of Homosassa, Fla., watches an adult periodical cicada climb up his T-shirt at Fullersburg Woods Nature Education Center in Oak Brook, Ill., on Thursday, June 6, 2024. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n
Handcrafted cicada jewelry by Julie Nathanson-Abrams is displayed for sale at Lincoln Memorial Garden and Nature Center on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Springfield, Ill. This necklace is made of UV resin and collected fallen cicada wings. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n
Yoon\u2019s friend, Wisconsin artist and professor Jennifer Angus, also sees the beauty in cicadas and other insects \u2014 so much so that she incorporates the actual bugs into her art. Sometimes she put them in outfits and posed them as dolls.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love them because they just have great faces and bulging eyes and they\u2019re very hardy,\u201d Angus said. \u201cThey stand up to the wear and tear at my exhibitions.\u201d \u201cI find their faces humorous,\u201d Angus said. <\/p>\n
Renee Martin, left, laughs after performing her cicada striptease in fishnet stockings and a cicada nymph puppet costume in a Cincinnati ally on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Audience members seated from left are, Lizzy DuQuette, Kalie Krause, Courtney Combs-Mock and Rae Fisher. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n
As light shines through a leaf behind, a periodical cicada nymphal skin is left on a tree Friday, May 17, 2024, in Charleston, Ill. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n
Renee Martin is an architecture professor at the University of Kentucky who also dabbles in puppetry. For a Cincinnati puppet festival three years ago \u2014 when Brood X was making big news on the East Coast \u2014 someone suggested she come up with a cicada costume or puppet.\u201cWhat would I do? A cicada strip-tease?\u201d she asked her friends, who gave a resounding yes.She worked up \u201csomething between a puppet and a costume\u201d for that festival, then hauled it out again for this year\u2019s big emergence, putting on a show in a Cincinnati alley for friends, neighbors and visiting journalists. <\/p>\n
Trillions of once hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the trees and perching upon people\u2019s shirts, hats and even faces. Illinois is at the center of this year\u2019s double cicada emergence (AP Video: Melissa Winder)<\/p>\n
Martin, wearing faux fishnet stockings and moving comically to stripper music, starts out as a cardboard pale nymph and then bursts through as a red-eyed adult nymph. The audience added to the effect with noisemakers and cries of \u201cooh la la\u201d and \u201csexy cicada.\u201d Meanwhile, photos of cicadas are swarming in to Kritsky\u2019s app, with nearly 5,000 people posting. About 150 people have posted at least 100 cicada pictures, but none are close to Barrack \u2014 who said she\u2019s surprised to be leading.\u201cI have so many pictures I haven\u2019t sent yet,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
An adult periodical cicada flutters against the waters of Lake Springfield at Lincoln Memorial Garden and Nature Center in Springfield, Ill., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n
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