A cicada is visible emerging from its former shell. Th shell iis attached to a tree trunk and is tawny. The emerging cicada is pale pistachio green with light brown accents and a dark round eye. The ...

Cicadas have started to emerge around Cincinnati this year. This brood of cicadas is XIV (14), the latest brood of 17-year cicadas to emerge. Cincinnati, Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and ...

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, ...

HUNTINGTON — With the warmer weather and clearer skies that come every summer also come cicadas, insects that emerge from underground every year in the final stage of their life cycle to mate and ...

Ohio is one of 13 states expecting cicadas this spring. While generally considered harmless to people, the loud, buzzing insects can pose a threat to certain types of trees and shrubs. In the ...

Periodical cicadas have one of the strangest life cycles in the animal kingdom. The 17-year cicadas spend 99.5% of their lives underground in an undeveloped nymph state, which is the longest strictly ...

CINCINNATI - Brood X, the largest and most widespread brood of cicadas in the U.S., is set to emerge from the ground this spring after 17 years. The periodical cicadas, which are different than the ...

In another few weeks, millions of locust-like bugs called cicadas will emerge from 17 years of underground slumber to screech and fly around some 24 counties in central Pennsylvania for about six ...

Last week, I noticed a huge wasp perched on a dried-up cucumber leaf. It was a male cicada killer wasp, Sphecius speciosus. These beneficial wasps show up each year shortly after the annual cicadas ...

If you feel yourself besieged in the coming days, with cicadas whirring overhead, crunching underfoot and shrilling from the treetops, you may have yourself to blame, at least in part. A nice house in ...