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 ...

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

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.

Missouri's yearly visitors will soon dig their way out of the ground throughout the state, along with their killer ...

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

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

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

Cicadas, one of the more unusual insect species in North America, are expected to emerge this spring after nearly 17 years underground, according to researchers.

Cicada season is dawning across the eastern US, this time with Brood XIV resurfacing for the first time since 2008. But as noisy and numerous as they are, this year’s swarms represent only a ...

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 ...

This species of cicada was last seen in 2008. The bugs arrived as forecast. in late April or early May, when the soil temperature at eight inches deep reached 64 degrees.

The 17-year Brood XIV of cicadas has not been seen in Massachusetts since 2008 and will not emerge again until 2042. ... There are 12 different species of cicadas that emerge in the Brood XIV cycle.