The song of the Cicada may be sounding off in your neck of the woods this week. But, it’s nothing compared to the roar of abdomen-flexing insects anticipated in some parts of Kentucky in the next two years.
That sound up in the trees is primarily the mating call of male Cicadas. It’s the annual emergence of this insect type. Jonathan Larson is an entomologist at the University of Kentucky. Next year, an every 13-year Cicada presence will be heard in about four western Kentucky counties. And then there’s the following spring.
