Cicadas are proving to be more than just a noisy nuisance this season, as one of the pesky insects apparently caused a car crash in the Cincinnati area.

One of the most interesting bugs in the insect world, cicadas have a fascinating lifespan and lifecycle. But how long do cicadas live, and how does this lifespan differ from bugs that are similar to ...

Are you seeing white cicadas in your yard during the historic 2024 emergence in Illinois? You're not alone. While many have come to recognize the dark-bodied, red-eyed winged creatures coming out ...

In a new summer exhibit to celebrate cicadas at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County, Hurley pointed to a mural of a ghostly white cicada shedding its exoskeleton with two black spots on its ...

Parts of central and eastern Kentucky will be the epicenter of Brood XIV’s emergence this summer, with potentially billions ...

National Geographic's Matt Kasson referred to infected cicadas as “flying saltshakers of death.” The white fungus takes over the male, their gonads are torn from their body and chalky spores ...

Here’s what we know. The zombification of a cicada or cicada swarm is pretty graphic, the white fungus pooling in its crevices. Cooley told the Independent that once the fungus takes over a ...

Here’s why so many people are seeing unusual-looking white cicadas right now. For the first time since 1803, Brood XIX and XIII cicadas will co-emerge, bringing trillions of cicadas out of the ...

Last time Matt Prusak saw periodical cicadas, he was 10 years old and had just moved to Tinley Park. He and a friend who lived nearby found a white cicada that they buried in a tin can.

The University of Connecticut observed that some periodical cicadas have blue or white eyes, or some may lack red pigmentation in their wing veins. These are natural color variations that are ...