A massive brood of periodical cicadas will emerge soon across the eastern United States, with the notoriously raucous springtime insects due for their 2025 appearance. Known for their buzzing hordes ...

Pretty as a picture: Entomologist Tawny Simisky shared a photo of an adult cicada, found May 23 at the Frances A. Crane Wildlife Management Area in East Falmouth. "The insect was released unharmed," ...

The historic dual cicada emergence continues across Illinois. As we come eye to eye with these insects, the revelation is prompting people to ask about the way these things look. Here are a few ...

In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. At the same time, around the mid-Atlantic region, small holes in the ground were ...

Billions of cicadas will appear later this spring across 12 states, experts say, as the second largest “brood” of the noisy insects emerges for the first time in 17 years. Brood XIV, as it’s known, is ...