Female cicadas can lay up to 400 eggs divided among ... specific noise with vibrating membranes on their abdomens. The sounds vary widely, and some species are more musical than others.

In my last column I wrote about the cicada killer wasp. An extraordinary large wasp that kills cicadas to feed the wasp’s offspring. I think it sparked some interest in insects in general ...

To do so, they use sound-producing structures called tymbals ... They try not to mate with different species, he said. Female cicadas die after mating once. The males mate until they can ...

The moment you exit your car in front of the Lake Geneva Public Library, the sound is overwhelming. Millions of Brood XIII 17-year cicadas have swarmed the southeastern Wisconsin city, and their ...

This year, cicadas from Brood XIV are expected to emerge in 13 states, including New York. The 12 other states include Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Nort ...