6 years ago
The swarms of cicadas invading the Mid-Atlantic region area pretty much all have huge red eyes. Blue-eyed cicadas are rare as rocking horse shoes - so rare that there had been Internet rumors of a one-thousand-dollar reward.
That reward turned out to be an urban legend. But a true blue-eyed cicada did turn up in McLean, Virginia, over the weekend in the yard of Associated Press Newsman Bill Sautter. He's donating it to researchers at the University of Maryland at College Park.
University spokeswoman Ellen Ternes says the school is pleased with the gift and will likely name it "Bill."
Sautter has mixed emotions about the honor. He says, "I'd rather have had the thousand bucks. But then again, you don't get a bug named after you every day."
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