This year, portions of 13 states may be impacted by Brood XIV, the second-largest periodical brood of cicadas, according to the University of Connecticut.

Cicadas are all the buzz right now. That’s because trillions — yes, trillions — of these noisy insects have been surfacing across the country thanks to a rare double brood that’s emerging from the ...

Crowdscience listener Ryosuke grew up in Japan, and spent his childhood summers catching cicadas in the park. For people in Japan, the sound of their chirping signals the first true summer day. But ...

Billions of cicadas are emerging across about 16 states in the Southeast and Midwest. Periodical cicadas used to reliably emerge every 13 or 17 years, depending on their brood. But in a warming world ...

A group of periodical cicadas on a shrub. (Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph University) For the first time in 17 years, a certain type of insect has emerged from the depths of the underground. Brood XIV ...

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Sammy Ramsey casts the mass emergence of the big, red-eyed bugs as a love story, not an insect apocalypse. By Katrina Miller Spring has sprung, and coming with it is a mass emergence of two broods of ...

While cicada sightings are certainly on the rise in the Chicago area, some residents in area suburbs have reported seeing none at all. It's true that the emergence has been patchy in the region, with ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago area is set to see billions of cicadas if not more this spring. With Illinois the center of emergency, the area will see more cicadas than anywhere else in the country.

This year, two "broods" of cicadas are emerging at the same time – and with them, reports of a mysterious fungus that is causing cicadas to become "zombies" who display abnormal sexual behaviors. But ...