Every year in the United States, a certain family of insects emerges from the ground to spend the summer months eating, breeding and laying eggs. While last year two massive cicada broods emerged at ...

After last year’s “cicada-geddon,” where two periodical cicada broods emerged at the same time to wreak noisy havoc on East Coast-homeowners’ yards, things are quieting down this year—a bit. A single ...

Cicadas have started emerging and are expected to come in swarms in the next few weeks in North Carolina. While some cicadas are annual insects that emerge every year, periodical cicadas appear only ...

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The first recorded American sighting of the cicada brood now known as Brood XIV was made by William Bradford, the governor of the Plymouth Colony, in 1634—and he was impressed by what he beheld.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — All across the southern and midwestern portions of the United States, large broods of periodical cicadas are preparing to emerge from underground. Brood XIX, the largest ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — As spring approaches, Pennsylvanians are preparing for the emergence of one of the largest broods of 17-year cicadas—Brood 14. According to entomologist Betty Ferster from Harrisburg ...

You’ve got your Swifties. Your Potterheads, Trekkies and your Whovians. But 2024 belongs to the Cicadaheads. This rare breed of fandom is poised to welcome a swarm of these alien-like bugs that are ...