Cicadas are members of the superfamily Cicadoidea and are physically distinguished by their stout bodies, broad heads, clear-membraned wings, and large compound eyes. There are more than 3,000 ...

Spring is approaching, and soon, the buzz of cicadas will permeate throughout neighborhoods in the eastern half of the United States. This year, cicadas from Brood XIV will be seen – and heard ...

Billions of cicadas in New York, New Jersey and 11 other states will come out of a 17-year-long hibernation in two months – and make their presence known with their famously noisy mating call ...

Tastes like asparagus? More on cicada facts, if they'll be spotted in Florida this year Brood XIX is set to emerge in the spring of 2024 across the Southeast and Midwest. Brood XIII will emerge in ...

Spring into spring with billions of cicadas! This year, the U.S. will see the emergence of two large broods of cicadas, which have not emerged simultaneously in more than two centuries.

As spring approaches, many wonder when they’ll hear the piercing calls of cicadas as they emerge from underground. This ...

Three species of cicada that only emerge once every 17 years are gearing up to spring to the surface in droves, when they will plague several regions on the East Coast with swarms of insects that ...

Cicadas, those loud, large but harmless insects, will soon emerge this spring after 17 years underground in Georgia. This brood, called Brood XIV, will begin their first mating season since 2008 ...

Joseph University in Cincinnati, recently USA Today. “It takes about two full weeks for the great bulk of the cicadas to come out,” he said. “Once they start coming out at a specific ...

The annual cicadas that appear every year later in the spring have green on them. The following facts were provided by Cicada Safari, created by Gene Kritsky, a biology professor at Mount St.