DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — If you've noticed your trees suddenly developing sections of brown dead leaves, it may be a result of this year’s cicada invasion.
“If people are seeing flagging — is what we call it — where the branch tips are browning throughout the tree, a percentage of them is most likely from the periodic cicada we had this year,” said Mike Brunk of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
Not all communities will have this problem. However, Decatur has numerous trees with the brown leaves.
Brunk tells WAND News it is from cicadas laying their eggs. Mature trees will survive this situation.
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