These curious creatures spend most of their lives in the ground, emerging after 13 or 17 years to eat, breed, die and repeat ...

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

In 2024, two distinct broods of cicadas will emerge after a 13-year dormancy, affecting 18 states across the nation. Notably, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This fall WNIJ’s Yvonne Boose is doing an Art Crawl by tagging along with a few northern Illinois artists. Her last and is a ...