Every year in the United States, a certain family of insects emerges from the ground to spend the summer months eating, breeding and laying eggs. While last year two massive cicada broods emerged at ...

Cicada season is dawning across the eastern US, this time with Brood XIV resurfacing for the first time since 2008. But as noisy and numerous as they are, this year’s swarms represent only a fraction ...

A massive brood of periodical cicadas will emerge soon across the eastern United States, with the notoriously raucous springtime insects due for their 2025 appearance. Known for their buzzing hordes ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Southern India's cicadas orchestrate a stunning dawn chorus, beginning precisely at civil twilight. Thousands of these ...

This year, a different type of cicada will emerge underground for the first time in more than a decade. They're known as Brood XIV, and they'll be popping up in north Georgia in the next few weeks.

Ohioans are primed to cross paths with some cicadas in a few weeks, as Brood XIV is set to emerge. Cicadas are expected in a portion of the state farthest south. Brood XIV is a periodical brood of ...

Last week, I noticed a huge wasp perched on a dried-up cucumber leaf. It was a male cicada killer wasp, Sphecius speciosus. These beneficial wasps show up each year shortly after the annual cicadas ...

A 5-year-old girl is captivating social media users after she took her "pet" cicada with her on a rollercoaster ride in Ohio. Margot, 5, adopted “Cade the Cader," a male cicada, while visiting Kings ...

Homeowners may be seeing some lingering effects of last year’s 17-year cicada emergence in smaller branches of trees, but ...