Researchers in India found the cicada species Platypleura capitata begins its morning chorus precisely when the sun is 3.8 ...

Greengrocer cicadas make a lot of noise. Most of their life is spent underground, where they are very quiet, but that changes when it's summer. Then it's party time for all the adult cicadas.

As I was sitting in the garden the other day, I noticed a huge insect flying just above the ground. When it got closer, I recognized it as the greatly beneficial cicada killer, which is always welcome ...

Last week, I noticed a huge wasp perched on a dried-up cucumber leaf. It was a male cicada killer wasp, Sphecius speciosus. These beneficial wasps show up each year shortly after the annual cicadas ...

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The adult female cicada from the approximately 47 million-year-old oil shale in the Messel Pit has been almost completely preserved. Credit: Senckenberg Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known ...

Cicadas are proving to be more than just a noisy nuisance this season, as one of the pesky insects apparently caused a car crash in the Cincinnati area. According to a crash report, a cicada flew into ...

Cicadas have started emerging and are expected to come in swarms in the next few weeks in North Carolina. While some cicadas are annual insects that emerge every year, periodical cicadas appear only ...

Abstract: In the summer and autumn seasons, insect chirping (such as cicadas) emerges as the predominant environmental noise interference in outdoor audio data collection. Although existing speech ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Like it or not, you are the go-to expert on cicadas, thanks to your previous columns on the subject. So, Professor ...