They emerge from the ground every 13 or 17 years. — -- Another 17 years have passed for one brood of periodic cicadas -- the time has come for billions to emerge from the ground in deafening ...

A group of periodical cicadas on a shrub. (Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph University) For the first time in 17 years, a certain type of insect has emerged from the depths of the underground. Brood XIV ...

The cicadas are coming. The red-eyed bugs with Broods XIII and Broods XIX are expected to emerge shortly, blanketing huge swaths of the country from Missouri to Illinois. The last time so many cicadas ...

What does the life cycle of a cicada look like? What happens during the 17-year period between each emergence? The DuPage County Forest Preserve answers these questions and more in a creative ...

Brood XIV, the latest group of buzzing cicadas, are emerging this spring. This time, billions of them will hit in at least 12 states, experts say. This brood, Brood XIV, is considered the second ...

It's a cicada year in the American South. Since 1998, the Great Southern Brood — one of the largest groups of synchronized cicadas in the world — has been slowly developing underground from Virginia ...

As the trillions of cicadas are emerging in states across the Midwest and Southeast this year, USA TODAY caught up with Gene Kritsky, a cicada expert and professor in the Department of Biology at ...

Already seeing a lot of cicadas? Arkansas is one of 17 states expected to get a visit from some of the trillions of cicadas this year, part of a rare, double brood event. The state will entertain ...

A group of M. septendecim cicada males at the edge of Pennsylvania woods in 2019. They are 17-year cicadas from Brood VIII. Credit: Chris Simon In parts of the American South and Midwest, two broods ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Cicadas are emerging in some parts of the U.S., but most of Kentucky and Indiana aren't being impacted. Two broods are coming from the ground this spring in numbers not seen ...

A stinging insect that had vanished from one European country for roughly half a century is back, and its return is part of a wider pattern that should make all of us pay closer attention to the bugs ...