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 ...

(NEXSTAR) – 2024 brought us “cicada-geddon,” a double awakening of two broods of periodical cicadas that swarmed much of the eastern United States over the spring and summer. The noisy ...

This year’s group, Brood XIV, will emerge in numbers in the lower billions this spring, according to Gene Kritsky, founder of Cicada Safari, a group that studies cicadas and gathers data as ...

Brood XIV, the second largest periodical cicada brood, is expected to rise to the surface this spring after spending 17 years underground, as reported by the University of Connecticut. WATCH ...

SCIENTISTS ARE ASKING FOR HELP DOCUMENTING THE BUGS THROUGH THE FREE APP CICADA SAFARI. YOU GO OUT WITH THE APP ON YOUR PHONE, TURN YOUR GPS ON AND WHAT HAVE YOU, AND YOU FIND CICADAS. YOU ...

This year’s cicada emergence is particularly noteworthy as it involves all three species of 17-year cicadas. “Sometimes different species will all coincide in a good year and you’ll have a ...