The cicada life cycle has three stages: eggs, nymphs, and adults. Female cicadas can lay up to 400 eggs divided among dozens of sites—generally in twigs and branches. After six to 10 weeks ...

When states can expect the winged creatures depends on the weather. As ground temperatures warm to 64 degrees, the cicadas will emerge for the first time in 17 years. The first states to get cicadas ...

This year’s group, Brood XIV, will emerge in numbers in the lower billions this spring, according to Gene Kritsky, founder of Cicada Safari, a group that studies cicadas and gathers data as ...

The following facts were provided by Cicada Safari, created by Gene Kritsky, a biology professor at Mount St. Joseph University and author. Periodical cicadas, like the Brood 14, are often ...