This year, trillions of those creatures are emerging in various U.S. states, including Illinois ... This is like the life cycle of cicadas. Prime numbers are intriguing numbers indeed.

The double emergence of Brood XIX and Brood XIII in multiple states this year will be the first time since 1803, when Thomas ...

shells left behind by cicada nymphs from an emerging 17-year cicada brood remain on the ground next to holes created when ...

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 ...

Those loud, buzzing red-eyed cicadas will soon be returning to parts of New Jersey. See a map of likely locations.

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

Spring is approaching, and soon, the buzz of cicadas will permeate throughout neighborhoods in the eastern half of the United States. This year, cicadas from Brood XIV will be seen – and heard ...

This long life cycle is a defense mechanism ... Brood XIV consists of millions and millions of cicadas that will emerge across the Midwest, particularly in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Indiana.