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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In this YouTube video, a cicada sits on a leaf and, over the course of two hours, sheds its old self via molting. Molting is a biological process of transformation undergone by many creatures in the ...

It’s late summer, and the dog-day cicadas (Tibicen canicularis, identifiable by its large size and black-and-olive-green ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Annual cicadas emerge in NC during July and August, drawn to deciduous trees. Cicadas use loud mating calls reaching 90 decibels, but ...

A 5-year-old girl is captivating social media users after she took her "pet" cicada with her on a rollercoaster ride in Ohio. Margot, 5, adopted “Cade the Cader," a male cicada, while visiting Kings ...

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 ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

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 ...

A brood of cicadas that only emerges every 17 years is set to make its appearance in New York this spring. The Empire State and at least 13 other states — Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, ...