As cicada season begins, many are wondering just how loud these buzzing insects can get. During large emergences, you might ...

Billions of 17-year cicadas from Brood XIV will emerge across New York and 13 states in mid-May 2025. Here's what you need to ...

Brood XIV cicadas will emerge in numbers around the lower billions in 13 states, including Ohio and parts of Greater ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have invented a method to manipulate the musical scales of cicadas' chirps ...

A brood of cicadas that only emerges every 17 years is set to make its appearance in New York soon. Here's what to know.

Not unlike the large swaths of cicadas that emerged in 2021, a different brood will be emerging this summer across southwest ...

Cicadas are not dangerous to other animals or humans as they cannot bite or sting. At worst, they can bump into people while flying. Cicadas also do not pose a risk of hearing damage despite their ...

“At a large emergence, you’ll see a million and a half cicadas per acre - that’s acreage under trees,” Dr. Kritsky says. “That’s a million and a half cicadas.” Cicadas are at the bottom of the food ...

As it has done every 17 years since, Brood XIV died off just six or so weeks after it emerged, but not before laying billions ...

“If they have to be in an area where there’s a large emergence, all these cicadas will fly in and start laying their eggs in the few branches they have, and that will kill the small tree.