Cicada Safari Kritsky forecast the emergence of Brood XIV by location, using a meteorological model he developed while researching potato farming. Much like potatoes, cicadas grow underground and ...

Right now, this 2025 cicada brood is only expected to emerge in 13 US states. Brood 14 is one of several cicada broods with synchronized life cycles. When they emerge, they arrive in large numbers ...

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Cicada Brood XIV, the second-largest periodical brood, has begun to emerge in some Eastern states. Along with some possible stragglers from other broods, including Brood I, Brood VI and Brood X ...

Three species of cicada that only emerge once every 17 years are gearing up to spring to the surface in droves, when they will plague several regions on the East Coast with swarms of insects that ...

The fungus is easy to spot because it replaces cicada’s backends with what looks like a “chalky white gum drop,” according to Matt Kasson, a professor of forest pathology and mycology at ...

The oldest known fossil of a singing cicada reveals that these insects were making music during the Eocene epoch — long before humans existed. “The fossil has been in the collection of the ...

Isabel Wherry tells PEOPLE her daughter named the cicada, Cicady Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...