The big question now is: What should you do with all of the cicada carcasses and exoskeletons left behind ... suggests ...

The cicadas are coming. According to the University of Kentucky Department of Entomology Kentucky will be the epicenter for ...

Kentucky is about to get hit with massive numbers of periodical cicadas. Unlike the annual cicadas, periodical cicadas emerge ...

An annual cicada brood will emerge this year, along with annual cicada species that we see each year. Here's what to know.

Kentucky will be the epicenter for the emergence of Brood 14 of 17-year periodical cicadas this spring, which have been ...

In Ocala National Forest, Florida, a cicada slowly unfurls its wings and expands its body after emerging from its exoskeleton. Photograph By Nicholas Conzone All periodical cicadas in a given year ...

They shed their exoskeletons, coming out as creamy-colored adult cicadas with new wings and red eyes. Their outer shell will harden and darken overtime. The blood red eyes stay. Adult periodical ...

Then the nymphs will crawl out and look to climb higher before the molt and the adult cicada will first come out of its exoskeleton, or exuviae, a white insect before turning black with red beady ...

A few hours after digging out from their underground burrow, cicadas emerge as adults, leaving the empty brown exoskeletons from ... is leaving its shell and begins to enlarge its wings.