Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What's that sound? It may sound like a very loud buzzing or droning that lasts all day and into the night. But before you call the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The periodical cicada broods are coming – and while harmless, they're famously quite noisy and loud. The noise will be hard to miss. But it won't all even be the same noise – as there ...

Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs RIVERWOODS, Ill. — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, ...

Have you ever collected cicada shells? Fifty years ago, my childhood friends and I did. We would be outdoors playing tag or hide-and-seek, or digging worms for fish bait, and someone would issue the ...

Researchers are trying to make an artificial cicada for underwater communication. Of all the bugs that achieve the mantle of summer pest, cicadas are perhaps the most curious. They don't sting, they ...

The moment you exit your car in front of the Lake Geneva Public Library, the sound is overwhelming. Millions of Brood XIII 17-year cicadas have swarmed the southeastern Wisconsin city, and their ...

The US’ 17-year cicadas might have kicked the bucket last month, but that doesn’t mean people are safe from these insects’ deafening melody. A viral video from Japan shows a cicada emitting an ...

Got cicadas? You may have copperheads too. Cicadas that shed their skins are a food source for copperheads. These snakes are more active at night during the summertime. They prey on the insects when ...

Sunspots come in 11 year cycles and they may cause a little static on the radio, but something much closer crawls up out of the ground in year cycles, and from the “sound” of it (no intentional pun) ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County has been getting a lot of buzz for an entertaining video it posted on periodical cicadas. On Wednesday of last week, the forest preserve ...

Periodical cicadas are expected to emerge in New Jersey this May. Here is everything you need to know about Brood XIV and ...