Cicadas Emerge in Force in Section of Madison

Billions of cicadas are emerging after 17 years underground, and a reader clued us in on a hotbed of cicada activity in one section of Madison.

"Take a walk down Beech Ave and look at the trees and telephone poles," they said. "Some trees have hundreds on them."

The insects dot the trees, utility poles and even a street sign post there. Cicada shells are piling up at the bases of some of the poles.

In other towns, residents are finding them on their homes, cars and mailboxes. In Bridgewater, one resident whose property was swarmed while his neighbors, so far, were spared said it seems to be on a scale of "plague-like proportions."

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