Get ready for a loud spring, New Jersey. Millions of buzzing, red-eyed cicadas will be emerging from the ground in at least ...

Last year, the Great Southern Brood of cicadas emerged after 13 years, crawling up trees, molting and leaving their outer ...

As part of the Gardening for Life Speaker Series the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster will present "The Comings ...

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 ...

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 ...

This spring will be filled with the sound of millions of Brood XIV cicadas. Here's what to know about 17-year cicadas and how many are in Brood XIV.

The next periodical cicadas are expected to arrive in Pennsylvania in 2030 (Brood II), 2033 (Brood V), 2036 (Brood VII) and ...

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 ...

While the great cicada emergence of 2024 brought a historic convergence of cicada broods, what will happen in 2025?

Brood XIV cicadas are gearing up for their debut later this spring. This brood periodically emerges every 17 years.

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.