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 ...

Rare cicada double brood emergence to happen this year. ... 7 cicada species will emerge this year in rare event that hasn't happened since 1803. By Amber Rupinta. Friday, February 2, 2024.

Britain's cicada species on the brink Across the Atlantic, naturalists have been hoping against hope that the British Isles’ only species of cicada has not gone the way of the Rocky Mountain locust.

Cicada killer wasps, also known as the eastern cicada killer or cicada hawks, are a species of the large digger wasp that preys on cicadas. This is bad news for the Broods XIX and XIII, ...

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

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.

The fossil record for insects in general is abundant in just a few dozen locations, and while modern cicada species are numerous today, paleontologists have documented only 44 Cicadidae fossils.

The fossil record for insects in general is abundant in just a few dozen locations, and while modern cicada species are numerous today, paleontologists have documented only 44 Cicadidae fossils.

Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters) long with a wingspan of 2.7 inches (68.2 millimeters), its fossilized ...