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Most of the periodical cicadas emerging across the eastern U.S. in this year's rare dual emergence event have blood-red eyes, but sightings of blue-eyed variants have recently been reported.
The cicada - found in Wheaton, Illinois - has a 'one in a million' genetic mutation that means it has grayish-blue eyes instead of the normal red.
Most of the periodical cicadas emerging across the eastern U.S. in this year's rare dual emergence event have blood-red eyes, but sightings of blue-eyed variants have recently been reported.
Two rare blue-eyed cicadas were spotted in the Chicago suburbs. Four-year-old Jack Bailey found the blue-eyed cicada in his family's yard in Wheaton, Illinois.
In what could be described as trapping lightning in a bottle, a suburban Chicago family spotted an extremely rare blue-eyed cicada. Greta Wallgren Bailey said that her daughter found it