Researchers at Michigan State University studied how insects can help humans detect lung cancer weeks earlier than scans ...

Fiction, from 1955: On a farm by the Zambezi River, a woman experiences a return of the locusts—rust-colored creatures that invade the crops like smoke or a bad storm, devastating the landscape.

Each species has its own sound, and the chorus can reach 90 to 100 decibels – as loud as a lawn mower, CicadaMania said. Are cicadas and locusts the same thing? No, they are different species of ...

Crickets belong to the order Orthoptera, which also includes grasshoppers and locusts. Maybe people often mistake crickets for grasshoppers, which is easy to understand. These small, cylindrical ...

Entomologists with the University of Kentucky believe the Bluegrass State will be the "epicenter" for the emergence of Brood XIV (14) of periodical cicadas which emerge every 17 years.

The locusts need to be living to read the neurons, Sanchez said. “The insect is alive when we do our experiments because we need the brain to be healthy,” Sanchez said.