Wednesday update — Increasing cicada sightings The warm, rainy weather seems over the last 24 hours seems to have brought out the cicadas in slightly greater numbers.

Brood X is on its way. Love is in the air this spring, and billions of cicadas soon will appear in the eastern United States in the biggest emergence event since 2004. The insects are expected ...

Cicada chasers, Simon says, help fill in the center of the distribution of broods so scientists and their mapping teams can concentrate on the edges. Amateurs have even tipped off scientists to ...

Cicada Folklore, or Why We Don’t Mind Billions of Burrowing Bugs at Once The earliest documented examples of cicada folklore come from China.

Cicada app allows people to report sightings of the 2021 Brood X red-eyed insects Cicadas getting ‘high, horny, super-sexed’ from fungus that makes their butts fall off ...

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Cicada Folklore, or Why We Don’t Mind Billions of Burrowing Bugs at Once The earliest documented examples of cicada folklore come from China.

How to turn cicada season 2021 into a science project Science May 3, 2021 1:32 PM EST ...

National map shows regions of the United States where the Brood X cicadas will soon be emerging after 17 years of hiding underground.

Brood X — pronounced “Brood 10,” because cicada broods are labeled with Roman numerals — is one of the largest of 15 broods of periodical cicadas in the United States. (Three broods come ...

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 ...

The periodical cicadas that have blanketed parts of the American Midwest this spring are strange creatures, but they have nothing on some of their superfans.