Researchers said the species was “abundant” but “difficult to capture” as it evaded their light traps in the tree canopy.

Get ready for an insect phenomenon that has been 17 years in the making. Starting this spring, when temperatures are warm ...

The noisy, alien-looking bugs are expected to return to the Peach State once again this spring, but this year’s brood is not ...

Three species of cicada that only emerge once every 17 years are gearing up to spring to the surface in droves, when they ...

Periodical cicada adults are around 1-1.5 inches long and have a wingspan roughly twice that length. They can be identified by their black bodies, large red-brown eyes and wings with orange veins ...

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Annual cicadas have a green coloring but periodical cicadas are black and orange ... can actually observe this magical part of the insect metamorphosis," Reall said. After the adults are active ...

Cicadas, those loud, large but harmless insects, will soon emerge this spring after 17 years underground in Georgia.

Brood XIV, the second-largest periodical cicada brood, last emerged in 2008, Tamra Reall, an entomologist at the University ...

Not only are cicadas returning to the Volunteer State this year but Tennessee is expected to have one of the largest concentrations of the nuisance bugs anywhere in the U.S., according to USA TODAY.