Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas’ wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, scientists say. By Jack Tamisiea Today, few critters are as abundant as cicadas.

Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters) long with a wingspan of 2.7 inches (68.2 millimeters), its fossilized ...

This year, the periodical cicada Brood XIV (14) will emerge during the springtime in 12 states. Typically beginning in May and ending in late June, millions of cicadas with a 17-year life span will ...

HUNTINGTON — With the warmer weather and clearer skies that come every summer also come cicadas, insects that emerge from underground every year in the final stage of their life cycle to mate and ...

Recently, many have discussed a so-called “cicada apocalypse” or “explosion of bugs” happening this year in the United States, during which two large broods of the insects will co-emerge at the same ...

They’re noisy and they’re disgusting looking. The buzzing sound from the trees is a springtime staple in North Alabama. They dive bomb unsuspecting pedestrians. Their carcasses litter the sidewalk.

Certain cicada species in North America emerge from the ground by the millions every 13 or 17 years. But why those specific ...

ST. LOUIS — Shhhooo. Wee-uuu. Chick, chick, chick. That's the sound of three different cicada species. For some people, those sounds are the song of the summer. Others wish the insects would turn it ...

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