White Sox legend makes a cicada 'catch' outside his Mokena home

MOKENA, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- If the discovery made by former White Sox slugger Ron Kittle at his home in Mokena is any indication the cicadas that are coming this spring are going to be of plague-like proportions.

Ron Kittle was moving brick pavers that form a patio in the shape of home plate on his property. There- he saw what’s coming.

"I wasn't looking forward to it, but I was rearranging it because a couple of grass sprouts are coming through it and under each brick was- I think four by nine or something, there were over 50 holes of cicadas peeking their heads out," he told WBBM.

The assumption is the they went underground before the patio was installed.

"They were wiggling and I just lifted them up and throw them in the yard and one bird ate one.," Kittle said.

He added that the cicadas look like "big larvae right now with big worms."

They’re in his yard too, which, Kittle said he keeps immaculate, like Augusta National Golf Course.

Experts say two periodical cicada broods , which haven't emerged simultaneously in more than 220 years, will rise from the ground in parts of the U.S. as early as this month.

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