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 ...
PRINCETON, New Jersey -- Would you eat a cicada? Some high school students in Princeton, New Jersey are using the Brood X cicada emergence to spread the word about the benefits of eating insects. The ...
CINCINNATI - Brood X, the largest and most widespread brood of cicadas in the U.S., is set to emerge from the ground this spring after 17 years. The periodical cicadas, which are different than the ...
A massive brood of periodical cicadas will emerge soon across the eastern United States, with the notoriously raucous springtime insects due for their 2025 appearance. Known for their buzzing hordes ...
Sifting through a shovel load of dirt in a suburban backyard, Michael Raupp and Paula Shrewsbury find their quarry: a cicada nymph. And then another. And another. And four more. In maybe a third of a ...
Periodical cicadas, Brood XIV, emerge in parts of the eastern U.S. every 17 years. Scientists study cicadas to understand their unique life cycle, timekeeping abilities, and response to climate change ...
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, ...