As spring warms the eastern U.S. and green shoots peek from the ground, other forms of life stir in the soil. Periodical ...

Prepare yourself for a summer of bugs. One year after a trillion cicadas invaded states in the Southeast and Midwest, a different brood that has been underground for 17 years is ready to emerge in ...

Periodical 17-year cicadas in Brood XIV—one of 15 broods found only in North America—begin to creep from their underground burrows. When M. cicadina infects adults, it produces durable, thick-walled ...

For the last 17 years, a group of cicadas known as Brood XIV has been buried several inches underground, doing very little.

Periodical cicadas are a fascinating insect with a remarkable life cycle ... which came out of holes in the ground … and ate the green things, and made such a constant yelling noise, as made ...

DAHLONEGA, Ga. — Red-eyed, black-bodied, and orange-winged cicadas have been emerging in parts of north Georgia, part of Brood XIV. Last above ground 17 years ago in 2008, they'll be here for about a ...

Nashville cicadas are no joke. From pesky to downright earsplitting, these guys aren't our favorite locals. Are we due for another major emergence?

From sex-crazed zombie cicadas and a chair-stuck alligator in Florida to AI job interview fails and record-breaking ...

The bugs come in two varieties ... The difference is how long they spend there. Annual cicadas, which have black or green eyes, emerge every year. These include dark-bodied swamp cicadas found ...

The map above, which shows Brood XIV in neon green, provides only ... largest brood of cyclical cicadas and surfaces every 17 years. While brief, the coming insect explosion will shape ecosystems ...