Following a career spent studying the behavior and biology of periodical cicadas, Gene Kritsky, Ph.D.—professor emeritus of biology at Mount St. Joseph University and chief science officer for the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive brood of periodical cicadas will emerge soon across the eastern United States, with the notoriously raucous springtime ...

As spring approaches, many Americans may be expecting the return of loud, swarming cicadas, but experts say there’s little to worry about this year. No major 13‑ or 17‑year cicada broods are set to ...

Cicadas coordinate their early morning choruses with remarkable precision, timing their singing to a specific level of light during the pre-dawn hours. In a study published in the journal Physical ...

With a 17-year cicada emergence coming soon, some members of the Western North Carolina community may have questions. WNC didn't see much beyond the usual annual "dog day" cicadas in 2024, despite the ...

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 ...

A fungal disease could soon bring infected cicadas to your backyard. Massospora cicadina is a fungal pathogen that infects only 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas, like this year's Brood XIV.The ...

DAHLONEGA, Ga. — Red-eyed, black-bodied, and orange-winged cicadas have been emerging in parts of north Georgia, part of Brood XIV. Last above ground 17 years ago in 2008, they'll be here for about a ...

This spring, as the soil warms, a cohort of cicada nymphs that has been living amid tree roots for 17 years is due to begin tunneling toward the surface. In decades past the emergence of a cicada ...

Nothing says summer like the chorus of cicadas. Those annual cicadas also signal the arrival of cicada killer wasps, one of Illinois’ largest and most misunderstood wasps. Despite their large ...

Creativity is a must when doing fieldwork in the Amazon. That's why Brazilian researchers turned to condoms of all things to uncover clues about cicadas and their bizarre clay towers. Earth.com ...