The big cicada invasion of 2021 has already started in some parts of the eastern United States, and billions of these mysterious red-eyed insects known as Brood X will soon be digging their way out of ...

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 ...

Brood X cicadas have arrived and are making themselves known, screaming in trees to attract a partner for their long-awaited mating season. Brood X has been in the ground for 17 years, waiting for ...

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 ...

After spending almost two decades underground, Brood 10 cicadas are due to appear in U.S. states between Georgia and New York this spring, as reflected in a map created for Newsweek. The graphic below ...

While the past year may have made many of us feel cooped up, it’s nothing compared to the Brood X cicadas who spent the past seventeen years underground. When they finally emerge in a few weeks, it ...

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