An alert 6-year old from Downer's Grove, Illinois discovered a mutant cicada, obviously a spy for the Animal Uprising™, sneaking up on his family. He alerted the proper authorities, in this case, his Mom.
Nicholas Wagner's mother, Maria, said her son learned about the blue-eyed bugs in kindergarten, so he decided to go out and hunt for one himself.
"`Mommy, I found a blue-eyed cicada!'" he yelled upon the discovery, his mother recalled. "He's been looking for a long time." (Ed. Note: He's six – how long could he have been looking?)
While the boy's find was rare, it's not unheard of.
The blue eyes are caused by a genetic variation, said Gene Kritsky, author of "Periodical Cicadas: The Plague and the Puzzle."
Blue-eyed cicadas are indeed one in a million, Kritsky confirmed. "Of course," he added, "there are hundreds of millions of cicadas."
Yes, Brood XIII has emerged – no word on any crashed weddings yet, but they do have mutants.Well, either that or they're actually Norwegian cicadas.
Norwegian cicadas do not follow the 17 year cycle pattern. Instead, Norwegian cicadas only come out when you give them coffee.
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I bet that blue eyed one could get rich making cicada porn.
So, if it has blue eyes, does that mean it’s trying to disguise itself as a WASP?
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