More than a dozen states will once again hear the buzzes and clicks of cicadas this year. It won’t be as bad as last spring, but the second-largest group of cicadas, known as Brood XIV will return ...

The first recorded American sighting of the cicada brood now known as Brood XIV was made by William Bradford, the governor of the Plymouth Colony, in 1634—and he was impressed by what he beheld.

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Cicadas, like many mammals and unlike other bugs, urinate in a steady stream Getty Two cicada broods are expected to emerge in Spring 2024 in the United States A new study exploring the bug's ability ...

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 ...

MACON, Ga. - Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in ...

A certain insect is getting plenty of time in the limelight this year. Since two broods of cicadas have re-emerged by the trillions across the U.S. this summer, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame ...

Tequila famously has a worm, but could your next summer cocktail have a...cicada? According to this video currently making the rounds on social media, some people are already giving it a try. Of ...