Three species of cicada that only emerge once every 17 years are gearing up to spring to the surface in droves.

Get ready for an insect phenomenon that has been 17 years in the making. Starting this spring, when temperatures are warm ...

Researchers said the species was “abundant” but “difficult to capture” as it evaded their light traps in the tree canopy.

Cicada nymphs and exoskeletons will litter the ... Annual cicadas have a green coloring but periodical cicadas are black and orange, Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann, an entomologist and associate director ...

The new species is ochre-color with black markings and is about ... the seven specimens they captured were actually part of a new cicada species, Cochleopsaltria huboliao, according to a study ...