This spring and summer, people in parts of the American Midwest and South will get to experience a numerically magnificent ...

and they are set to emerge throughout the Midwest and Southeast regions of the U.S. The insects belong to two distinct groups of periodical cicadas: Brood XIII and Brood XIX. The first brood ...

Cicadas are members of the superfamily Cicadoidea and are physically distinguished by their stout bodies, broad heads, clear-membraned wings, and large compound eyes. There are more than 3,000 ...

After spending 17 years underground, millions of cicadas will be emerging in parts of the United States. Periodical cicadas are expected to come out in early summer across southwest Virginia ...

Maybe you're fascinated by this past spring's "zombie cicadas," but you didn't get a good glimpse of the noisy critters. One of the world's most well-known magazines has captured these moments in ...

The numbers 13 and 17 are also prime numbers, and so-called “periodical” cicadas have life cycles of exactly 13 or 17 years. This year, trillions of those creatures are emerging in various U.S ...