This isn't one of THOSE years for cicadas in Iowa, where millions — maybe billions — of the bugs emerge after 17 years underground. But cicadas in Brood X, one of the largest broods of periodical ...

Expect a pretty quiet summer in Iowa, at least as far as cicadas are concerned. Some of the big, loud bugs will emerge, as they do every year. But there will be no large broods to cause a noisy ...