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 ...

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 ...

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 ...