This story contains interviews with Tekknolagi, the student who solved the Cicada 3301 puzzle. In January I wrote a story about the one person who is known to have made it further down the Cicada 3301 ...

The spring of 2021 will bring the emergence of Cicada Brood X, a 17-year periodical cicada. These cicadas will number in the billions and will emerge across 15 states, including Indiana. With billions ...

Illinois is the center of the cicada emergence that is on the way. Two groups of cicadas are expected at once, leaving some people queasy, others thrilled. Students at Cumberland Elementary School in ...

When the trillions of periodical cicadas emerge in multiple Midwestern and Southeastern states next month, they will face a unique predator with murderous intent: cicada killer wasps. Cicada killer ...

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, ...

Billions of bugs are emerging from the soil across a large swath of the United States in a natural phenomenon last witnessed in 1803. It involves two broods, or groups, of periodical cicadas, insects ...

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Love them or hate them, cicadas are fascinating insects commonly talked about in North Carolina during the warmer months. Cicadas spend most of their life underground, emerging when soil temperatures ...

This year, the warmth of spring is an invitation for more than one species to emerge from long-term isolation. In parts of 15 Midwestern and East Coast states, cicada season is on its way. This won’t ...

Massospora cicadina’s lifecycle is so closely linked to periodical cicadas, that it waits 17 years to hijack its sex life — then spreads by turning them into walking spore bombs. Every 13 or 17 years, ...