Once gone, Brood XIV of cicadas will not return to Massachusetts until 2042. The noisy bugs mobbed parts of Cape Cod this year.

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

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

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.

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 ...

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.

Kentuckiana avoided a big cicada swarm the last two years, but that streak is coming to an end.

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

One such conservation effort is underway in England. Scientists are attempting to reintroduce New Forest cicadas, also known ...

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

The loudest animals on earth dominate soundscapes with astonishing decibels. From the world's loudest animal, the blue whale, ...

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