Over the past few weeks, Brood XIII 17-year cicadas have emerged in parts of southern Wisconsin and the Midwest for the first time since 2007. Along with the crunchy carcasses they leave behind, ...
Cicadas are the song of the summer, especially around St. Louis, but this year’s large broods may be especially irritating for people on the autism spectrum who have hearing sensitivity. ST. LOUIS — ...
Shhhooo. Wee-uuu. Chick, chick, chick. That’s the sound of three different cicada species. For some people, those sounds are the song of the summer. Others wish the insects would turn it down. The ...
Around Australia, the buzz-saw siren of cicadas heralds the beginning of summer. With 237 recorded species of cicada in Australia, almost no area of the country is untouched by their song. Up to 800 ...
HUNTINGTON — With the warmer weather and clearer skies that come every summer also come cicadas, insects that emerge from underground every year in the final stage of their life cycle to mate and ...
In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. At the same time, around the mid-Atlantic region, small holes in the ground were ...
CINCINNATI, Ohio - The arrival of warm spring temperatures also means the arrival of cicadas, which are expected to start filling the air with their iconic buzzing sounds as soon as next week in some ...
As much of the central U.S. is being blanketed by these buzzing insects, photographer Keith Ladzinski captures the strange and wondrous double emergence event that only occurs every 200 years. A ...