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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

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, ...