FLY-FISHERS in the eastern half of the U.S. are eagerly anticipating a hatch 17 years in the making: the Brood X cicada emergence. From around mid-May through June, billions of these chubby bugs will ...

LYONS - My Wisconsin fishing exploits over the years have been accompanied by a range of soundtracks. When I was a kid fishing for yellow perch from the piers in Racine, it was the slosh of Lake ...

Millions of cicadas from Brood XIV are expected to emerge this spring after spending 17 years underground. Will we hear them in Mississippi? The songs of cicadas are an iconic part of summer in the ...

A group of periodical cicadas on a shrub. (Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph University) For the first time in 17 years, a certain type of insect has emerged from the depths of the underground. Brood XIV ...

While the great cicada emergence of 2024 may be coming to an end, the "summer of cicadas" is far from over, and the next round might look a little different. That's because another emergence is on the ...

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, ...

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, but, ah: the whine, the drone, the rattling diminution. There you are!