When all was said and done, the cicada exoskeletons took on a completely different look. “Once they become hair, I don’t think they’re creepy anymore,” she said. “Hopefully it helps ...

To create another huge piece of land art, he trudged for more than five ... With the possibility of having thousands of cicada exoskeletons at his fingertips, he imagined several collages of ...

Brood XIV is emerging across Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. While the cicadas are annoying to some, they offer ...

HANGING OUT: Cicadas’ only interest in annual vegetables might be to find an elevated place to molt and leave behind their nymph-phase exoskeleton. Photo by Chloe Lieberman Things are getting ...

Biological Soil Aerators Photo: istockphoto.com Cicadas spend virtually all their lives underground, emerging only to shed their exoskeleton and mate. After the eggs hatch, cicada nymphs burrow 8 ...

They stay buried year after year, until they surface and take over a landscape, covering houses with shed exoskeletons and making the ground crunchy. This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is ...

Tymbals are a thin, ridged drum-like structure of a cicada's exoskeleton made of resilin. Females also make sounds to attract males, Arizona State University says, but they use their wings to make ...

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 ...