In one of history’s weird coincidences, the second summer of a global pandemic brought Johns Hopkins biologist Ethan Allen Andrews out on a Baltimore lawn to watch the massive Brood X cicada mating ...

A drop of water lands on the back of a periodical cicada, a member of Brood X, on June 03, 2021 in Columbia, Maryland. They're loud. They're sexually aroused. And for one special, cacophonous month up ...

When big broods of cicadas emerge every 13 or 17 years, birds are treated to a smorgasbord of fresh food – and this sudden glut has cascading effects on other animals and plants in the ecosystem. John ...

FOREST PARK, Illinois (AP) — Mayumi Barrack sees a pair of mating periodical cicadas getting together, whips out her phone, says, “Hi guys!” and takes their picture. “I’m not really a bug person, but ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FOREST PARK, Illinois (AP) — Mayumi Barrack ...

They're big. They're incredibly loud. And they're coming by the billions. Meet Magicicada cassinii, better known as the cicada. Every year, a relatively small number of these insects emerge from the ...

RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FOREST PARK, Illinois (AP) — Mayumi Barrack ...

Cicadas might seem like a crispy, protein-packed snack, but people with seafood allergies should think twice about eating them, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. "We have to say it," ...