In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. At the same time, around the mid-Atlantic region, small holes in the ground were ...

A Brood X cicada after emerging in Mifflin County in 2021. Brood XIV have started to emerge in parts of Pennsylvania and other states in 2025. They're back! The cicadas, that is. In particular Brood ...

Get ready for an insect phenomenon that has been 17 years in the making. Temperatures are almost warm enough for parts of the eastern United States to start seeing the emergence of Brood XIV ...

Hear that buzz? Billions of cicadas have crawled from underground in D.C., Maryland and Virginia to begin a weekslong period of cacophonous mating. While some may be worried about creepy crawlies, ...

An insect phenomenon that has been 17 years in the making has finally arrived. Temperatures are warm enough for parts of the eastern United States to start seeing the emergence of Brood XIV periodical ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- "What would make somebody not want to study bugs?" asked Greg Cowper. The longtime insect-lover crawled his way through the dark hallways within the Academy of ...

If you thought we were done seeing — and hearing — cicadas in the United States, think again. The lesser-seen annual cicadas are here. And no, they aren't just like the periodical ones with red, beady ...

The cicadas are back – well, some of them. Brood XIV has begun to emerge in some eastern U.S. states. The brood emerges every 17 years, and is considered the second largest periodical cicada brood, ...

In the year 2000, four years before Brood X was scheduled to appear, cicadas came out early. Many died, but some in southwestern Ohio survived to form a separate group that reemerged in 2017. "We had ...