In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. At the same time, around the mid-Atlantic region, small holes in the ground were ...

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 ...

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, ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...