Pretty as a picture: Entomologist Tawny Simisky shared a photo of an adult cicada, found May 23 at the Frances A. Crane Wildlife Management Area in East Falmouth. "The insect was released unharmed," ...

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 ...

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 ...

In another few weeks, millions of locust-like bugs called cicadas will emerge from 17 years of underground slumber to screech and fly around some 24 counties in central Pennsylvania for about six ...

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- Would you eat a cicada? Some high school students in Princeton, New Jersey are using the Brood X cicada emergence to spread the word about the benefits of eating insects. The ...

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They emerge from the ground every 13 or 17 years. — -- Another 17 years have passed for one brood of periodic cicadas -- the time has come for billions to emerge from the ground in deafening ...

(WKYT) - If you’ve been outside, you may have noticed it’s a lot noisier than usual. That’s because we’ve had billions of cicadas emerge from the ground in our region. They are very annoying, whether ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Cicada Brood XIV will be emerging from the ground across western Virginia any day now. Experts say you will likely see these red-eyed creatures and most certainly hear them.