Much of the D.C. region has listened to the cicadas for weeks now — some have even eaten them. But one local man recorded their sounds to determine the key of their mating call. Before he retired ...

MISSOURI, USA — Missouri's yearly visitors will soon dig their way out of the ground throughout the state, along with their killer counterparts. Annual cicadas have already begun their reemergence and ...

Ah, the sweet summer song of cicadas buzzing... and buzzing... and oh my GOODNESS, when will they stop buzzing?! As Dr. Reinhard Lakes-Harlan at the University of Giessen explains it, “Only the males ...

A periodical cicada. Brood XIV have begun their emergence from the soil. 15 periodical cicada broods exist in the U.S. – the numeral XIV, or fourteen, means it was the 14th brood observed by ...

If you're getting irritated by the ear-piercing sound of this year's group of cicadas in and around Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio (and the mess they leave behind), you're probably wondering when ...

The Newberry County Sheriff's Office took to social media to let their community know it's best to resist the urge to call the cops over the noisy cicadas. After months of anticipation, the cicadas ...

Last week, I noticed a huge wasp perched on a dried-up cucumber leaf. It was a male cicada killer wasp, Sphecius speciosus. These beneficial wasps show up each year shortly after the annual cicadas ...