It's been one year since the peak of the cicada invasion in Alabama.One of WVTM 13's own captured an incredible time-lapse during 2024 that looks like it's straight out of a "Planet Earth" ...

The insects from this group were last seen in 2008 and will appear across the eastern U.S. for a brief, dramatic frenzy of ...

Brood XIV cicadas are expected to return to Virginia within the next few weeks, but will only emerge in part of the state.

The cicada life cycle has three stages ... They spend their entire developmental period in these underground burrows before molting their shells and surfacing as adults to mate and lay eggs.

Right now, molted skins have been found all over Middle Tennessee and even a couple of cicadas have been found mid-molt. You can help us keep up to date with Brood XIX in Tennessee by sharing your ...

The brood emerges every 17 years, and is considered the second largest periodical cicada brood, according to the University of Connecticut. Researchers use past emergences to predict where and ...

While states like Kentucky and Tennessee brace for a literal buzz bomb, eastern Oklahoma sits safely outside the splash zone for 2025’s swarm. Entomologists say Brood XIV — one of the largest of the ...

Then the nymphs will crawl out and look to climb higher before the molt and the adult cicada will first come out of its exoskeleton, or exuviae, a white insect before turning black with red beady ...