They’re going loco for locusts. A South Carolina sheriff’s department has been swarmed with 911 calls about incessant siren sounds — only to find out that the concerned citizens are ...

Each species has its own sound, and the chorus can reach 90 to 100 decibels – as loud as a lawn mower, CicadaMania said. Are cicadas and locusts the same thing? No, they are different species of ...

Fiction, from 1955: On a farm by the Zambezi River, a woman experiences a return of the locusts—rust-colored creatures that invade the crops like smoke or a bad storm, devastating the landscape.

Researchers at Michigan State University studied how insects can help humans detect lung cancer weeks earlier than scans ...

Historic cicada event underway in parts of U.S. 02:09 Cicadas are returning by the trillions in the U.S. this year — a synchronized emergence that begins when the dirt reaches a precise 64 ...

Entomologists with the University of Kentucky believe the Bluegrass State will be the "epicenter" for the emergence of Brood XIV (14) of periodical cicadas which emerge every 17 years.

The locusts need to be living to read the neurons, Sanchez said. “The insect is alive when we do our experiments because we need the brain to be healthy,” Sanchez said.