A co-emergence of two cicada broods took place in 2024 in many southern states including North Carolina. This year, another brood of "periodical" cicadas is headed for the Tar Heel State. Yearly, ...

This year, portions of 13 states may be impacted by Brood XIV, the second-largest periodical brood of cicadas, according to the University of Connecticut.

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 ...

Sammy Ramsey casts the mass emergence of the big, red-eyed bugs as a love story, not an insect apocalypse. By Katrina Miller Spring has sprung, and coming with it is a mass emergence of two broods of ...

The much anticipated cicada hatch of 2024 is almost here. In fact, in parts of Mississippi it's already begun, albeit in small numbers. "I've already had some early reports of them," said Blake Layton ...

Daylight saving time is finally here, and all that extra sunlight will soon be accompanied by a symphony of sound. The Brood XIV cicadas are set to emerge in North Carolina sometime in late April or ...

On Friday, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Insect Diagnostics Lab PJ Liesch said he received the summer's first reports of Brood XIII 17-year cicadas emerging in Wisconsin. The ...

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