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 ...

Researchers calculated the flight ability of more than 80 ancient cicada species to analyze their evolution over time.

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

Because both of these species groups each only contain one species on each life cycle, there’s been less research on the distinctive habits of Decula and Cassini species, whose ancestors began to ...

Cicadas' wings are veined and transparent, and darker veins near the tips of the wings in some species make the shape of a "W." They have no stingers and lack chewing mouthparts, so they can't bite.

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.

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.

7 cicada species will emerge this year in rare event that hasn't happened since 1803. By Amber Rupinta. Friday, February 2, 2024. A once in a lifetime ecological event is happening this spring ...

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

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

3 cicada species, 3 cicada noises . There are three different species of 17-year cicada – with similar counterparts in the 13-year brood. They are known taxonomically as Magicicada cassini, ...

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, ...