Video Quality Speed 00:00 02:03 Cicadas are creeping back to the DMV after 17 years underground. Brood XIV are periodical ...

As spring warms the eastern U.S. and green shoots peek from the ground, other forms of life stir in the soil. Periodical ...

As it has done every 17 years since, Brood XIV died off just six or so weeks after it emerged, but not before laying billions ...

Periodical 17-year cicadas in Brood XIV—one of 15 broods found only in North America—begin to creep from their underground ...

For the last 17 years, a group of cicadas known as Brood XIV has been buried several inches underground, doing very little.

Periodical cicadas are a fascinating insect with a remarkable life cycle ... of a great sort of flies … which came out of holes in the ground … and ate the green things, and made such a constant ...

On Monday, people took to social media, posting pictures showing cicadas breaking free from the ground and appearing in some places.

Cicadas and locusts may both swarm and buzz, but they’re very different insects. Here's how to tell them apart.

Here's more about cicadas vs. locusts. According to AZ Animals, "Cicadas are a type of Hemiptera or 'True Bug.' Some think they are related to crickets, but really they are not. Though they are ...