It’s a big year in America – for wildlife as well as for politics. I’m talking about periodical cicadas. These curious ...

Ancient birds shaped cicada wing evolution, leading to faster, stronger wings for survival. This reveals insights into ...

This spring and summer, people in parts of the American Midwest and South will get to experience a numerically magnificent ...

This year is shaping up to be a bumper summer for cicadas with the emergence of one species in particular - the Green Grocer.

A recent study on global giant cicadas by Chinese scientists has provided novel insight on the adaptive aerodynamic evolution ...

Miró-Rivera, who returned to his hometown last year after graduating from Yale University with degrees in art and cognitive science, has been interested in cicadas since the fall of 2023. That’s when ...

Kosher experts say that’s a treif idea. Foodies have suggested popping cicadas in your mouth. “Why not embrace Brood X as the free-range, sustainable source of protein that it truly is?” ...

Here’s how it works. The rapid evolution of cicadas' flight ability may have been spurred by the emergence of predatory birds, new research suggests. These insects' bodies and wing shapes ...

The numbers 13 and 17 are also prime numbers, and so-called “periodical” cicadas have life cycles of exactly 13 or 17 years. This year, trillions of those creatures are emerging in various U.S ...