A co-emergence of two cicada broods took place in 2024 in many southern states including North Carolina. This year, another brood of "periodical" cicadas is headed for the Tar Heel State. Yearly, ...

CYNTHIANA — Eight inches below ground, a buggy bomb ticks away. Millions of periodical cicadas bide their time, feasting on tree roots and counting the years. They don’t wear watches or keep calendars ...

Sammy Ramsey casts the mass emergence of the big, red-eyed bugs as a love story, not an insect apocalypse. By Katrina Miller Spring has sprung, and coming with it is a mass emergence of two broods of ...

Billions of bugs are emerging from the soil across a large swath of the United States in a natural phenomenon last witnessed in 1803. It involves two broods, or groups, of periodical cicadas, insects ...

It’s about to get loud. What makes these creatures different from the cicadas that we see every summer? This brood only sees the light of day once every 17 years. And they have different features.

Daylight saving time is finally here, and all that extra sunlight will soon be accompanied by a symphony of sound. The Brood XIV cicadas are set to emerge in North Carolina sometime in late April or ...

VIRGINIA, USA — That loud, distinct buzzing. Those empty exoskeleton shells attached to trees (or worse, your car). It's almost time for trillions of cicadas to emerge from the ground and create a ...

While Illinois will experience annual cicadas in 2025, it won't see a repeat of 2024. The two periodical broods that appeared last year in the Prairie State won't emerge this year.