NATURE IS TREATING Americans to all kinds of spectacles. On April 8th millions witnessed a total solar eclipse. Many will be less charmed when, in the coming days, trillions of cicadas appear in the ...

The cicadas are coming. The red-eyed bugs with Broods XIII and Broods XIX are expected to emerge shortly, blanketing huge swaths of the country from Missouri to Illinois. The last time so many cicadas ...

Cicadas are the talk of the town in many states in the country. Here's a closer look at the life cycle of cicadas, some of their attributes and answers to common questions. Yes and no. Annual cicadas ...

What does the life cycle of a cicada look like? What happens during the 17-year period between each emergence? The DuPage County Forest Preserve answers these questions and more in a creative ...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. — A rare, once-in-a-lifetime cicada co-emergence is just months away from occurring, with millions of the colorful insects expected to emerge from the ground across the U.S. and fill ...

It's not just you. These past years have been buggy. And by "buggy," I mean flying pests with eyeballs and wings. In 2021, the Brood X cicadas emerged throughout most of the Midwest and some eastern ...

It's a cicada year in the American South. Since 1998, the Great Southern Brood — one of the largest groups of synchronized cicadas in the world — has been slowly developing underground from Virginia ...

Homeowners may be seeing some lingering effects of last year’s 17-year cicada emergence in smaller branches of trees, but ...

As Illinois awaits a massive, rare double-brood emergence of cicadas, entomological research shows that the insects may come earlier. This year, two 'periodical' cicada species—Brood XIII and Brood ...

A group of M. septendecim cicada males at the edge of Pennsylvania woods in 2019. They are 17-year cicadas from Brood VIII. Credit: Chris Simon In parts of the American South and Midwest, two broods ...

Two broods of cicadas are emerging in big numbers in the United States after a long nap. Feels like a special occasion, although it turns out that many creatures do something like this, go dormant as ...

The red-eyed bugs with Broods XIII and Broods XIX are expected to emerge shortly, blanketing huge swaths of the country from Missouri to Illinois.... Comic video features humans reenacting cicada life ...