It has almost been a year since the last emergence of cicadas in Tennessee. Now, brood XIV is set to reemerge in the Eastern ...

As part of the Gardening for Life Speaker Series, the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster will present “The ...

This is like the life cycle of cicadas. Prime numbers are intriguing numbers indeed. —The Asahi Shimbun, June 6 Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a popular daily column that takes up a wide range of topics ...

Cicadas, particularly those in the Magicicada genus, emerge only every 17 years due to an evolutionary strategy that maximizes their survival. This long life cycle is a defense mechanism known as ...

Those loud, buzzing red-eyed cicadas will soon be returning to parts of New Jersey. See a map of likely locations.

Brood XIV (14) will emerge this spring in Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, ...

Brood XIV cicadas are gearing up for their debut later this spring. This brood periodically emerges every 17 years.

All periodical cicadas of the same life cycle that emerge in the same year are known collectively as a single “brood” (or “year-class”). They emerge on a common schedule, according to ...