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

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

Nature blessed my boyhood summers with music. Cicadas’ rising-falling sing-song gave days rhythm. Katydids chimed in evenings with a night-shift song backed by cricket twitter. The call of a whip-poor ...

A few of Indiana's tiniest transplants — invasive worms, moths and beetles from overseas — have made massive changes to Indiana's ecosystems over the past several decades.

Crickets’ refrain give us a classic nighttime sound plus the temperature according to Dolbear’s law. Temperature (F) equals ...

Adult June bugs are called chafers because they eat leaves and flowers of trees and shrubs — they have gained a reputation for ruining gardens and being a nuisance especially in groups, according to ...

Nature blessed my boyhood summers with music. Cicadas’ rising-falling singsong gave days rhythm. Katydids chimed in evenings ...

Beetles are arguably the most diverse group of organisms on the planet with more than 400,000 species so far named by science ...

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.

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

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.