They don’t wear watches or keep calendars, yet every 17 years — including this year — Brood XIV emerges across parts of the region like clockwork. Chris Simon, professor emeritus of ...

In this YouTube video, a cicada sits on a leaf and, over the course of two hours, sheds its old self via molting. Molting is ...

Have you been noticing that many deciduous trees throughout the area are covered in browned, dying leaves and branches? The ...

Missouri's yearly visitors will soon dig their way out of the ground throughout the state, along with their killer ...

Cicada season may be over, but another pest emerges right after. Here's how to prevent possible bites and rashes from oak ...

The further south you go, the bigger the bugs. Heat has a dramatic effect on the growth rate of some species, and North ...

The cicadas are out in full force in one particular part of Massachusetts. The periodical insects known as Brood XIV are emerging on Cape Cod after 17 years underground. Jennifer Forman Orth, the ...

While Illinois will experience annual cicadas in 2025, it won't see a repeat of 2024. The two periodical broods that appeared ...

Brookhaven National Lab has received some noisy guests this summer—a brood of cicadas that have been incubating for the last ...

An astonishing, 47 million-year-old find: scientists in Germany have uncovered and identified the fossil of a true cicada. It ...