A massive brood of periodical cicadas will emerge soon across the eastern United States, with the notoriously raucous springtime insects due for their 2025 appearance. Known for their buzzing hordes ...

Much of the eastern United States can prepare for what one entomologist described as a "spectacular, macabre Mardi Gras" this spring. The event Jonathan Larson, an extension entomologist at the ...

2024 has been the year of the cicada, thanks to a double periodical brood emergence in over a dozen U.S. states. A total of 17 combined states across the Midwest and Southeast have seen the trillions ...

More than a trillion noisy, inch-long cicadas are set to emerge from underground this spring to embark on the final leg of their lifetimes, in a massive co-emergence that hasn't been seen in more than ...

The first insects in what will become a massive, 13-state swarm of cicadas has begun emerging in the South, a biological marvel that will begin slowly making its way north as temperatures rise, ...

(NEXSTAR) – If you’re currently living in a cicada-filled wonderland (or nightmare, rather), the good news is they’ll soon be a distant memory. These massive broods of bugs only come out periodically, ...

At this very instant, in backyards and forests across the eastern U.S., one of nature’s greatest spectacles is underway. Although it may lack the epic majesty of the wildebeest migration in the ...

The insect cohort known as Brood X may not emerge on Long Island, a sign of humanity’s effects on even nature’s most reliable periodic events. An adult Brood X cicada dried its wings after shedding ...