Cicadas belong to the Hemiptera order, often referred to as 'True Bugs.' They are sometimes mistaken for crickets but are more closely related to aphids. Locusts, on the other hand, are a type of ...

Seventeen years after the Brood XIV cicadas last emerged as adults and annoyed people with their loud buzzing calls, they're coming back. Residents along inner Cape Cod and over the bridge into ...

The cicada brood of 2025 is emerging. Are you ready for it? Known as Brood XIV, this cyclical cicada swarm has been lying ...

While portions of Greater Cincinnati might have escaped the swarm of cicadas in 2021, it's unlikely they'll be able to evade the emergence and ear-piercing sound of this year's group ...

PROVIDENCE – The forests of the eastern United States will again be abuzz this spring with billions of cicadas emerging after many years underground, but don’t count on hearing any of the ...

With a 17-year cicada emergence coming soon, some members of the Western North Carolina community may have questions. WNC didn't see much beyond the usual annual "dog day" cicadas in 2024 ...

Brood XIV cicadas, appearing for the first time since 2008, are emerging in the eastern U.S. Sightings are concentrated in western North Carolina, southern Kentucky, and parts of Tennessee.

Like it or not, cicadas are poised to return to parts of Cincinnati this week. The news has many people on the city's East Side bugging out. On Monday, people took to social media, posting ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Not unlike the large swaths of cicadas that emerged in 2021, a different brood will be emerging this summer across southwest Ohio. Brood XIV will be emerging in the coming ...

The first recorded American sighting of the cicada brood now known as Brood XIV was made by William Bradford, the governor of the Plymouth Colony, in 1634—and he was impressed by what he beheld.