This method involves counting cicada exuviae, or the skins left behind after nymphs emerge, to assess their distribution and abundance. The Cicada-MET protocol has been validated over several ...

Isabel Wherry tells PEOPLE her daughter named the cicada, Cicady Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

Remember the cicada emergence of 2021? Well, some areas in southeastern Ohio will experience another emergence this spring.In fact, the Cincinnati area sees four different broods over time ...

Brood XIV, the second-largest group of periodical cicadas, known for their noisy mass emergence from the ground, is the only group of 17-year cicada that will emerge this spring, according to ...

(NEXSTAR) – 2024 brought us “cicada-geddon,” a double awakening of two broods of periodical cicadas that swarmed much of the eastern United States over the spring and summer. The noisy ...

For the first time in 17 years, cicada Brood XIV will emerge in spring 2025 — and Massachusetts is one of 13 states that will experience the cicada boom. Brood XIV is a periodical brood and is ...

This past summer, Isabel Wherry's daughter, Aspen, noticed a dead cicada in their front yard in Illinois. She named it Cicady, and now, months later, she hasn’t let it leave her sight.