Every year in the United States, a certain family of insects emerges from the ground to spend the summer months eating, breeding and laying eggs. While last year two massive cicada broods emerged at ...

You may have heard by now about the multiple broods of cicadas that simultaneously emerged this summer in the South and Midwest, an emergence that hasn't happened in 200 years. Thankfully, New Jersey ...

Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas’ wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, scientists say. By Jack Tamisiea Today, few critters are as abundant as cicadas.

Around Australia, the buzz-saw siren of cicadas heralds the beginning of summer. With 237 recorded species of cicada in Australia, almost no area of the country is untouched by their song. Up to 800 ...

Love ’em or hate ’em, the cicadas are coming. 2025 will bring back Brood XIV, the largest of all 17-year periodical cicada ...

They emerge from the ground every 13 or 17 years. — -- Another 17 years have passed for one brood of periodic cicadas -- the time has come for billions to emerge from the ground in deafening ...

More and more people are seeing and hearing cicadas in Illinois. The historic dual emergence of the insects brings more questions. We have some answers. How long will cicadas be in Illinois? Because ...

They’re noisy and they’re disgusting looking. The buzzing sound from the trees is a springtime staple in North Alabama. They dive bomb unsuspecting pedestrians. Their carcasses litter the sidewalk.

During an afternoon stroll around Morton Arboretum, Maria Malayter’s Apple Watch buzzed twice with an unusual notification. The screen warned her of a “loud environment” with sound levels reaching 90 ...