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 ...

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 ...

When the killer bug attacks hives, they kill the adult worker bees, and then wipe out the next generation by eating the larvae ... Eastern cicada killer that Texans will see this fall.

This year’s cicada emergence is particularly noteworthy as it involves all three species of 17-year cicadas. “Sometimes different species will all coincide in a good year and you’ll have a ...

This year’s group, Brood XIV, will emerge in numbers in the lower billions this spring, said Gene Kritsky, founder of Cicada Safari, a group that studies cicadas and gathers data as community ...

SCIENTISTS ARE ASKING FOR HELP DOCUMENTING THE BUGS THROUGH THE FREE APP CICADA SAFARI. YOU GO OUT WITH THE APP ON YOUR PHONE, TURN YOUR GPS ON AND WHAT HAVE YOU, AND YOU FIND CICADAS. YOU ...

This year’s group, Brood XIV, will emerge in numbers in the lower billions this spring, according to Gene Kritsky, founder of Cicada Safari, a group that studies cicadas and gathers data as ...

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.