The US’ 17-year cicadas might have kicked the bucket last month, but that doesn’t mean people are safe from these insects’ deafening melody. A viral video from Japan shows a cicada emitting an ...

Among the many sounds of summer, there’s one that’s completely undeniable: cicadas. The collective buzzing and clicking is a bit hard to miss. And this year, they’ll be deafening as millions of ...

A fly known as Emblemasoma erro uses sound, not smell, to locate its cicada hosts. And it's not just gravid females that are lured by the cicadas' songs -- males are also attracted to the sound, ...

Dan Babbitt of the National Museum of Natural History’s Insect Zoo came up with cool things about the bugs that some people — maybe your parents — think are just a bother. 1. Cicadas can survive a ...

In the insect world, smells are important. Insects of course do not have noses, but they do have receptors on their antennae, feet, and other body parts that allow them to sense chemicals and odors.

Magicicada septendecim, also known as Brood XIII, also known as the 17-year locust, also known as the Northern Illinois Brood, also known as the cicada you’re most likely to squash (with malice or not ...

Six-year-old Caroline Krinov interacts with the cicada sound machine that teacher Adam Gerhardstein built. How do you get kids to engage in the classroom? One way is to build an interactive cicada ...

How do you play a built-in trumpet? When a friend asked, “Do elephants make that trumpeting sound through their nose or mouth?” that prompted us to take a deeper look at how animals make some of their ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio — When the Brood X cicadas emerge in parts of the U.S. later this month, they’ll be big and they’ll be loud. “It's crickets-on-steroids kind of thing,” said Dr. Ian Windmill, senior ...