Tater Tots—little, poppable fried clumps of potatoes—were first introduced in 1954 by the founders of the American frozen ...

Missouri's yearly visitors will soon dig their way out of the ground throughout the state, along with their killer ...

Annual cicadas, sometimes referred to as “dog day” cicadas, usually emerge in July and August every year, Chris Hayes, an extension associate of structural pest management at NC State University who ...

While Illinois will experience annual cicadas in 2025, it won't see a repeat of 2024. The two periodical broods that appeared ...

In this YouTube video, a cicada sits on a leaf and, over the course of two hours, sheds its old self via molting. Molting is ...

It's only July, and some Cape Cod leaves are turning brown. No, your tree isn't dying. Here's what's really going on.

Periodical cicadas emerge in the spring every 13 to 17 years after developing underground. This is in contrast to annual cicadas, which emerge every summer. While annual cicadas generally emerge in ...

Brookhaven National Lab has received some noisy guests this summer—a brood of cicadas that have been incubating for the last 17 years.

Cicada killer wasps paralyze annual cicadas with a sting & feed them to their young. Not normally a threat to humans, they like warm loose soil & emerge in July ...

Hear that buzz? Why this cicada season will be different from the next 12 This may be the most cicadas you'll see until 2037.

While there will be no periodical cicada emerging next year, there will still be annual cicadas. Kritsky runs an app called “Cicada Safari” that crowdsources cicada sightings.