Cicadas 2024 Illinois News. Many of them will serve as a valuable food source for birds and other natural predators, bolstering wildlife across the state. A plague of parasitic mites has descended upon illinois in the wake of this year's historic crop of cicadas, leaving residents with raging rashes and incessant itching.

But it’s very unlikely you’ll be able to avoid the billions of cicadas set to emerge from the ground all across illinois this spring and. A plague of parasitic mites has descended upon illinois in the wake of this year’s historic crop of cicadas, leaving residents with raging rashes and incessant itching.