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 ...

They don’t wear watches or keep calendars, yet every 17 years — including this year — Brood XIV emerges across parts of the region like clockwork. Chris Simon, professor emeritus of ...

Gourmet grub! Cicadas have become the latest food trend with chefs posting recipes for bacon-wrapped, Cajun fried and praline pests - so, would YOU be brave enough to eat them?

These hideaway cicadas are found only in the eastern United States and a few tiny other places. There are 15 different broods that come out every few years, on 17- and 13-year cycles.

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This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is about to invade a couple parts of the United States in what University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon.” The last ...

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Author Christen M. Jeschke wrote "Cicadas Don't Bug Me" to teach children and their parents how the scary looking bug can be reimagined.

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

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

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 ...