Cicadas have a weird life cycle. They grow underground, but we humans mostly pay attention to them when they emerge into our ...

The song of the cicada is a reverberating noise that's hard to describe and even harder to re-create. Cicada calls are hard ...

The cicada life cycle has three stages ... young cicada nymphs hatch from their eggs and dig themselves into the ground to suck the liquids of plant roots. They spend their entire developmental ...

Kaster joined Borenstein and video freelancer Alyssa Schukar on an interview in Columbia, Maryland, and then reached out to an EPA scientist and photographed University of Maryland students who were ...

Summer means a lot of things: hot weather, long nights and loud cicadas. And those noisy insects seem to be turning up the decibels this year. You’re not alone in thinking the cicadas are louder ...

The numbers 13 and 17 are also prime numbers, and so-called “periodical” cicadas have life cycles of exactly 13 or 17 years. This year, trillions of those creatures are emerging in various U.S ...