Carole Will McDonald said she didn’t think she would find a blue-eyed cicada when she went looking for one in her front yard in Niles. It was a one-in-a-million shot, she understood, to find …
A blue-eyed cicada was found by Carole Will McDonald, of Niles, in early June. She said she found the critter near her home near the area of Milwaukee Avenue and Oakton Street. Carole Will McDonald didn’t think she would find a blue-eyed cicada when she went looking for one in her front yard in Niles.
According to Paul Gulezian, distinguished professor of biology at Oakton College, finding a blue-eyed cicada is indeed a rare occasion. He said that the sightings are known colloquially as one-in-a-million, but studies have also found that cicadas with blue eyes are one in a quarter million.
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