It may be loud and annoying to you, but to a female cicada — it’s the call of love. Brood X cicadas have been growing and developing underground in the D.C. area for the past 17 years. And just when ...

The eastern U.S. is about to be inundated with trillions of Brood XIV periodical cicadas—which were first documented by the pilgrims in 1634. Periodical cicadas have red eyes and emerge from the ...

A select group of cicadas have joined the likes of Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra as blue-eyed wonders that know how to attract America’s attention. An Illinois arboretum is abuzz after a blue-eyed ...

The first insects in what will become a massive, 13-state swarm of cicadas has begun emerging in the South, a biological marvel that will begin slowly making its way north as temperatures rise, ...

Hear that buzz? Billions of cicadas have crawled from underground in D.C., Maryland and Virginia to begin a weekslong period of cacophonous mating. While some may be worried about creepy crawlies, ...

The first insects in what will become a massive, 13-state swarm of cicadas has begun emerging in the South, a biological marvel that will begin slowly making its way north as temperatures rise, ...

As much of the central U.S. is being blanketed by these buzzing insects, photographer Keith Ladzinski captures the strange and wondrous double emergence event that only occurs every 200 years. A ...