It’s the season for cicadas again, and this year Oklahoma is going to miss the major brood birth, which will occur around the Kentucky and Tennessee, biologists say. Kelly Agnew, a Tulsa biologist who ...

Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas’ wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, scientists say. By Jack Tamisiea Today, few critters are as abundant as cicadas.

Cicada chaser Dean Evans is back from a whirlwind 2,200-mile, 36-hour road trip through nine states in which he collected dozens of the crazy-looking bugs from two broods that last crawled out of the ...

Researchers calculated the flight ability of more than 80 ancient cicada species to analyze their evolution over time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Cincinnati, did you prepare for the invasion? The cicadas are here. After 17 years underground, Brood XIV is emerging, and will bring millions if not billions of the noisy insects to Southwest Ohio ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Brian Evans from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center on the recent deaths of regional birds who ate Brood X cicadas. Correlation, Not Causation: Brood X Cicadas And ...

Love them or hate them, cicadas are fascinating insects commonly talked about in North Carolina during the warmer months. Cicadas spend most of their life underground, emerging when soil temperatures ...