This year is already shaping to be another insect-infested one. Two separate cicada groups, or broods, will emerge in a simultaneous event that hasn’t occurred in 221 years and won’t happen ...

The 13-year group, known as Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, is the largest periodical cicada brood, stretching across the southeastern United States. The Northern Illinois Brood ...

The historic cicada invasion is upon us! Noisy flying insects known as cicadas have begun emerging from the ground and have been spotted buzzing around North Carolina and South Carolina before ...

When the trillions of periodical cicadas emerge in multiple Midwestern and Southeastern states next month, they will face a unique predator with murderous intent: cicada killer wasps. Cicada ...

Cicada killers, also known as ground digger wasps, look like oversized bees. It’s natural to be alarmed if you see them buzzing around your lawn and garden, but it’s really the cicadas who ...

Three species of cicada that only emerge once every 17 years are gearing up to spring to the surface in droves, when they will plague several regions on the East Coast with swarms of insects that ...

It’s unclear how many there will be this year when Brood XIV emerges, because the cicada population has dwindled in the Empire State over the past 34 years as overdevelopment has destroyed their ...

The news comes as they're preparing to emerge in the Chicago area, one of the most populous zones on this year's cicada map. A study credited to two Georgia Institute of Technology authors ...

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 ...