The sheer volume of the number of cicadas expected to appear has many people comparing them to locusts and wondering what the differences are. Here are the answers to those questions. Fortunately ...

Cicadas are members of the superfamily Cicadoidea and are physically distinguished by their stout bodies, broad heads, clear-membraned wings, and large compound eyes. There are more than 3,000 ...

American Indians believed that the large cicada emergence had evil significance. Early American colonists were familiar with the Biblical story of locust plagues in Egypt and immediately thought a ...

Ground temperatures trigger when the cicadas will come out. No, they are different species of insects. Locusts belong to the same family of insects as grasshoppers. Locusts are far more ...