If you've stepped outside in recent days, you might have noticed the familiar sound of cicadas buzzing. And while it's a ...

Summer means a lot of things: hot weather, long nights and loud cicadas. And those noisy insects seem to be turning up the ...

Anyone who's stepped outside in the last few days would have heard the roaring buzz of cicadas coming from the trees across ...

Loud as aeroplanes and the sound of summer, the buzz of cicadas are part of the Australian summer. But they're louder than usual this year.

Let me paint the picture. It was a warm, summer day as I was walking my dog on my lunch break. The sun was shining. I could hear the echo of cicadas ringing through the trees as a light breeze made ...

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 ...

The 17-year and 13-year periodical cicadas returned to the Chicago area this year, and I became the Sun-Times' de facto ...

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 ...

Cicadas are members of the superfamily Cicadoidea and are physically distinguished by their stout bodies, broad heads, clear-membraned wings, and large compound eyes. There are more than 3,000 ...

Maybe you're fascinated by this past spring's "zombie cicadas," but you didn't get a good glimpse of the noisy critters. One of the world's most well-known magazines has captured these moments in ...

Meanwhile, Washington-based photographer Carolyn Kaster made it her mission to document the bugs she called “beautifully weird.” She had first encountered the Brood X cicadas 17 years ago in ...

With the emergence of trillions of Brood X cicadas in the US, Americans have more bugs flying around than they know what to do with. Some insect aficionados have decided to turn lemons into ...