This year, Cicada Safari's developers hope to see the app go huge for Brood X, with at least 50,000 observations. "This is the big one," Kritsky says. "A generational event." ...

With everyone abuzz about the 2021 Brood X cicada arrival, many have come up with creative ways to both get rid of and benefit from the pesky critters. Here's what everyone's saying about the cicadas.

This year, the warmth of spring is an invitation for more than one species to emerge from long-term isolation. In parts of 15 Midwestern and East Coast states, cicada season is on its way.

Big 2021 cicada invasion hasn’t started yet in N.J., but ... at other New Jersey towns where this type of cicada has been reported in the past and are likely to see these red-eyed bugs this ...

One of the many 17-year Brood X cicadas that emerged in Princeton on Sunday, May 23, 2021. Phil McAuliffe For The Times Of Trenton This type of cicada, known as a periodical, is emerging from the ...

These bugs don’t bite, and if we’re in the mood we may want to take a bite out of them—fried, roasted, toasted, or even dipped in chocolate. We won’t have the same opportunity again until ...

After 17 years spent hibernating underground, vast swarms of cicadas collectively known as Brood 10 will emerge in more than a dozen U.S. states in the coming months.

The cicada has the longest life cycle of any insect. Periodical cicadas from Brood X have lived underground in wingless nymph form since 2004, about a foot or two down, feeding on sap from tree roots.

One cicada even landed on top of my muzzle and looked me in the eyes with a cold stare. But, of course, they all knew I was powerless to eat them. It was so humiliating.

The report states that the driver, a 37-year-old man, was in his 2021 Kia Sorento when a cicada flew into the window. He tried to get the bug out of the SUV, but he lost control o ...

The earliest documented examples of cicada folklore come from China. James Deutsch From Insects, their way and means of living. Artwork by R. E. Snodgrass For at least forty million years, the ...