This spring and summer, people in parts of the American Midwest and South will get to experience a numerically magnificent ...

Billions of trillions of singing, winged insects with big red eyes are about to emerge from more than a decade of sleep underground. For the first time since 1803, these two broods, or generations, of ...

Spring into spring with billions of cicadas! This year, the U.S. will see the emergence of two large broods of cicadas, which have not emerged simultaneously in more than two centuries.

It's a big year in America—for wildlife as well as for politics. I'm talking about periodical cicadas. These curious creatures spend most of their lives in the ground, emerging after 13 or 17 ...

The nymphs crawl up any hard surfaces – tree trunks, fences, vegetation – and moult into adult winged cicadas. After a few days, adults fly into the tree canopy, where males form loud ...

Lovett and his team found that even though infected cicadas can lose up to one-third of their bodies to the fungus, they continue to roam, fly, and fornicate as if nothing's wrong. That maximizes ...