Many cicadas in both Brood XIX and Brood XIII have emerged in states across the Southeast and Midwest. Here's where you can find them this year.

The cicada life cycle has three stages: eggs, nymphs, and adults. Female cicadas can lay up to 400 eggs divided among dozens of sites—generally in twigs and branches. After six to 10 weeks ...

New Jersey is set to have one of its noisiest summers in 17 years. There's a loud and noisy swarm of insects coming. And this year the group of insects with long life cycles called periodical cicada ...

Brood XIV (14) will emerge this spring in Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, ...

Cicadas, particularly those in the Magicicada genus, emerge only every 17 years due to an evolutionary strategy that maximizes their survival. This long life cycle is a defense mechanism known as ...

It’s difficult to pinpoint the precise areas that will get large clusters of cicadas because it’s based on reported and confirmed sightings mapped out during previous 17-year life cycles.

More than 3000 cicada species have been described worldwide. Most have a yearly life cycle, but seven species in the US belonging to the Magicicada genus remain underground as nymphs for 13 or 17 ...

"Periodical cicadas are among the most unusual of insects, with long life cycles, infrequent, periodic mass emergences, striking appearance, and noisy behaviors," according to the University of ...

Periodical cicadas are especially unusual because of their long life cycles and their infrequent mass emergences. According to entomologists at the University of Connecticut, periodical cicadas ...

We are starting to see the most impressive wasp found in Ohio. Eastern cicada killers (Specius speciosus) are large, solitary wasps. The cicada killer is one of the largest wasps in North America.