Brood XIV cicadas will emerge in numbers around the lower billions in 13 states, including Ohio and parts of Greater ...

Brood XIV cicadas will emerge in numbers around the lower billions in 13 states, including Ohio and parts of Greater ...

Sex-crazed cicada Brood XIV will be emerging from their subterranean sleep pods extra hungry for love thanks to the spread of a zombie fungus.

Cicadas get all their food by drinking a watery sap (xylem) from trees. Since the insects don't have mouths that open and close, they have straw-like tubes that they insert into trees. Baby ...

Spring 2025 marks the emergence of trillions of insects that have been underground for 17 years. Learn if they spread disease ...

Brood XIV cicadas, appearing for the first time since 2008, are emerging in the eastern U.S. Sightings are concentrated in western North Carolina, southern Kentucky, and parts of Tennessee.

Cicadas get all their food by drinking a watery sap (xylem) from trees. Since the insects don't have mouths that open and close, they have straw-like tubes that they insert into trees. Baby ...

Periodical cicadas spend most of their lifecycle underground, and once they emerge, they often only live for a few weeks: Just enough time for them to mate and lay eggs. Newly hatched baby cicadas ...

Eggs, typically attached to tree limbs, hatch a couple of months later. The baby cicadas, called nymphs, burrow down into the ground and the whole process begins again. Not all cicadas are ...

Billions of cicadas will appear later this spring across 12 states, experts say, as the second largest “brood” of the noisy insects emerges for the first time in 17 years. Brood XIV ...