RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Spring is around the corner and it's about to get much noisier in North Carolina. Scientists warn billions of cicadas will emerge in the U.S. starting in April. It's a rare ...

It sounds like spring 2024 will be abuzzing as more than a trillion cicadas are expected to appear across the U.S. For the first time in 221 years, the two groupings of cicadas, brood XIX and XIII, ...

Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters) long with a wingspan of 2.7 inches (68.2 millimeters), its fossilized ...

Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas are starting to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — Bugged by all this snow? Brace yourselves. We’re in for storms of a different sort come summertime. Think hoards of bloody-eyed cicadas that have muscled their way up to earth’s surface ...

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 ...

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 ...

When his youngest daughter was born early in the summer of 2004 in Washington, D.C., John Lill and his wife could hear cicadas singing from inside the hospital. “That’s how loud it was,” he said. “So ...

Two cicada broods that emerge on different timelines will meet this year in a natural occurrence that hasn’t happened since 1803. According to the New York Times, Brood XIII emerges every 13 years and ...