A botanic garden in Chicago is seeing signs of cicadas preparing to emerge


by WCVB

WCVB— Patrons at the Chicago Botanic Garden may be there to check out the beauty and wonder of the plant life they can see above the ground. But just below the ground, something else is stirring.

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