Swarms of Cicadas Hit Midwest
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Coming soon: Brood XIII. It sounds like a bad horror movie. But it's actually the name of the billions of cicadas expected to emerge this month in parts of the Midwest after spending 17 years underground
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Thunderstorms raked parts of the Midwest early Tuesday, a day after flash flooding swamped basements, stranded motorists and left some cars floating in water.
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Birdwatchers are descending on a rural area near this southern Wisconsin community following the sighting of what is believed to be a green-breasted mango, a type of hummingbird commonly seen in parts of Mexico and Central America.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Sep. 19--The Miami Blue butterfly, just 50 pairs of fluttering wings from extinction three years ago, breeds up a storm these days.   So far, the butterfly boom has been confined to a laboratory in Gainesville.
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Shortages of crop-dusting planes and pesticide are continuing to hamper locust control operations in West Africa, where new swarms of young insects are forming in southern Mauritania, northern Senegal and parts of Niger, the UN Food and Agriculture
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By Steve Pollick, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 14--You could tell from the way the birds were reacting at the backyard feeders yesterday morning that something big was on the way.   The feeders at my rural western Sandusky County creekbottom home were gleaned all but clean.
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By Tom Venesky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader Sep. 25--The presence of a diminutive insect in the state has forestry officials on high alert.
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By John Dodge, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Jun. 3--A colorful butterfly that is as imperiled as the prairie habitat it depends on is making a bit of a comeback here in South Sound.
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Like bugs streaking colorfully down the side window of a moving car, Earthgrazing Perseid meteors could put on a pleasing show after sunset on August 11th.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 11 -- Snow and ice storms battering the Midwest since the weekend have caused at least 23 deaths, snarled air travel, closed schools, left thousands without electricity and temporarily halted presidential campaigning in Iowa.
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That appears to be the conclusion of research in this week&#39;s issue of Science that assesses the effects of 17-year periodical cicadas on forest ecology.
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By Brandy Benedict, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 24--Active nests of an extremely rare bird species have been found in Wisconsin, a first for the state.
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By John Switzer, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 10--There's a phenomenon going on in this country that few people know about.   Coyotes, which have populated rural lands throughout much of the country, are moving into the big cities and making themselves at home.
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Bees have been disappearing at an alarming rate in 24 states, threatening the production of numerous crops.
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By Brian NearingALBANY -- A shiny little green beetle that already has contributed to the destruction of tens of millions of ash trees in the Midwest could next be headed toward New York state.
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Powerful thunderstorms and high winds that moved through much of the country sent a mobile home in Missouri flying, destroyed homes in Michigan and Indiana and collapsed a trailer in Kentucky. Six people were killed.
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They were collected by the Metro Health Department in the southeastern part of the county. The find prompted the health department to start another round of mosquito spraying.