After months of waiting, cicadas have finally emerged from the ground in much of the Chicago area. They're seemingly everywhere in some communities, but others are barely seeing any. Even if ...

The sound of summer's height is the cicada. You always hear the first one. It's a sound you haven't thought about for months, ...

In the summer of 2020, with a heat wave bearing down and a brood of periodical cicadas climbing into the trees, Husha mourns the recent death of her mother while quarantining with her ailing ...

Cicadas are also known for their buzzing and clicking noises, which can be amplified by multitudes of insects into an overpowering hum. Males produce this species-specific noise with vibrating ...

In early summer 2024, these emergences occurred ... more aggressive in their flight and the intensity of their sounds. All 100,000 cicada exuviae eventually made their way back to Texas, either ...

Periodical cicadas are expected to come out in early summer across southwest Virginia ... membranes on their abdomen to court females. The sound is described by Virginia Tech as like a "field ...

who is well-versed in cicadas, began research on the non-native species’ spread in the northern part of Kawaguchi in summer 2016. The invasive bug has been heard making a loud metallic sound for ...