The mystery of Cicada 3301 began with an Internet message posted by a user named 3301: “Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test. There is a ...

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 ...

Six annual cicada species are common in the Midwest. This episode can be used as a key to identify them by their sound. http://songsofinsects.com/ is the source of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Eastern Cicada Killer Wasps have been spotted in Albuquerque, according to the City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department. The cicada killers are commonly seen ...

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 ...

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 ...

North Carolina is in the middle of a hot summer, which means it won’t be long before annual cicadas make their first appearance of the year to serenade us with their never-ending songs. Cicadas begin ...

BLUE ASH, Ohio – Officials announced on Thursday that a "cicada attack" led to a car crash in the northern Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash. A photo shot after the incident shows a silver Kia laying on ...

An Ohio driver bugged out behind the wheel when a rogue cicada flew into his SUV — causing him to lose control and flip the vehicle as he frantically tried to swat away the winged intruder. The wild ...