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 ...

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil has been discovered in Europe.

The wasps may be the scariest-looking in the state, but they only cause harm to cicadas and don't pose a risk to humans.

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

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

Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known true cicada ever identified in Europe. For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been identified from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messel ...

The reverberating clicking noise that cicadas make is one of the most distinct sounds of all insects, but how exactly do they ...

The visit of the 17-year cicadas isn't particularly long, but it can bring back memories of cicada summers from long ago.

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

It's only July, and some Cape Cod leaves are turning brown. No, your tree isn't dying. Here's what's really going on.

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

Apple is adopting a strategy that is used extremely successfully in nature to achieve the exact opposite of what Apple wants ...