RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, ...

Cicadas don’t excrete urine in droplets like most small insects. Instead, they produce powerful jets of fluid, a behavior ...

That rhythmic summertime buzz is back: the cicadas have returned. For the first time in 221 years, more than 1 million cicadas are simultaneously emerging throughout the country. In a rare emergence, ...

Cicada chaos is flourishing and flying, and will be for at least another couple weeks in the Chicago area. Trillions of once-hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the trees and perching upon people's ...

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When it comes to cicadas, people either love them, don't mind them … or eat cicadas as a snack. No matter, though, there's no denying the colorful, relatively harmless and non-invasive bug. And what ...

The historic 2024 co-emergence of two cicada broods is coming to an end. The Great Northern Illinois Brood, a.k.a. Brood XIII, reached peak emergence nearly two weeks ago, and the number of bugs in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – As cicada season goes full force ...

More than a dozen states will once again hear the buzzes and clicks of cicadas this year. It won’t be as bad as last spring, but the second-largest group of cicadas, known as Brood XIV will return ...

An adult cicada with large red eyes perches at the top of a daylily in Menifee County. George Campbell George Campbell Cicadas are on the move in central Kentucky and beyond as they emerge across the ...