In the next few weeks, the brood of periodical cicadas that last emerged in 2008 will be singing and looking for mates before laying their eggs for the next emergence in 17 years. The 17-year ...

Cicadas are creepy-looking, red-eyed bugs that emerge in writhing masses everyone once in a while looking for love. And one ...

The closest place to Rhode Island to witness the emergence of periodical cicadas is Cape Cod, where Brood XIV is expected to ...

The eastern U.S. is about to be inundated with trillions of Brood XIV periodical cicadas—which were first documented by the ...

In this particular exhibition at the Staten Island Museum, even the pink of the walls comes from bugs — in the form of lac, a ...

New Jersey is set to have one of its noisiest summers in 17 years. There's a loud and noisy swarm of insects coming. And this year the group of insects with long life cycles called periodical cica ...

Cicadas, particularly those in the Magicicada genus, emerge only every 17 years due to an evolutionary strategy that maximizes their survival. This long life cycle is a defense mechanism known as ...