A cicada is visible emerging from its former shell. Th shell iis attached to a tree trunk and is tawny. The emerging cicada is pale pistachio green with light brown accents and a dark round eye. The ...

CHICAGO — Cicadas are now past their peak in Chicagoland and will soon be gone for good. Many of the locations across the area that were flooded with cicadas for weeks are starting to notice a lack of ...

We study the bark of each and every tree in the yard. Gianna, 4, takes the lead, while Makayla, 2, follows. Today we strike it rich, finding five cicada shells which Grandma places carefully in a zip ...

Diego Miró-Rivera has always been drawn to objects and spaces that others overlook. Cigarette butts, chunks of melting snow, and Texas mountain laurel seeds are among the materials the Austin artist ...

"I can’t go on a walk without a lil crunch crunch under my feet," One Reddit user posted to the Cincinnati subreddit. The cicada invasion is underway in Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio. And the 17-year ...

A cicada molts its shell in this file photo. Billions of them are set to emerge this summer with Kentucky at the epicenter. Misty Zban/provided Cicada Brood XIV, also known as the “Bourbon Brood” for ...

As much of the central U.S. is being blanketed by these buzzing insects, photographer Keith Ladzinski captures the strange and wondrous double emergence event that only occurs every 200 years. A ...

Explainer - It's the season, and you can't miss the buzzy chorus. So how do these insects make so much noise, and is it dangerous?

Are you seeing white cicadas in your yard during the historic 2024 emergence in Illinois? You're not alone. While many have come to recognize the dark-bodied, red-eyed winged creatures coming out in ...

In this YouTube video, a cicada sits on a leaf and, over the course of two hours, sheds its old self via molting. Molting is a biological process of transformation undergone by many creatures in the ...