Brookhaven National Lab has received some noisy guests this summer—a brood of cicadas that have been incubating for the last 17 years.

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

For the past several weeks, periodical cicadas have emerged in the wooded areas around my home. Their singing filled the air, ...

I covered the Brood XIV 17-year cicadas and the birds that love them, but it turned out the birds weren’t quite done adding ...

Margot, 5, adopted “Cade the Cader," a male cicada, while visiting Kings Island amusement park in Mason, her mother, Ashlea ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Although it won’t be like 2024’s “cicada-geddon,” some in the U.S. will see another round of the noisy insects again this year. Brood XIV is more spread out than some others ...

Summer bugs are back in action across the U.S. as more people share videos of cicadas, lanternflies and ticks. As NBC News' ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

First, it helps to think about what might attract a copperhead to your yard. Copperheads feed on small mammals, frogs, lizards, birds and insects, such as cicadas, according to a University of ...

DEEP in Sarawak's Gunung Mulu National Park, beyond dark rivers and deeper jungles, a trail climbs steeply to one of Borneo's ...

This discovery, made at the UNESCO World Heritage Site near Darmstadt, enhances our understanding of the region’s ancient fauna, fills a significant gap in the cicada fossil record, and sheds light on ...