At times mistaken for voracious and unrelated locusts, periodical cicadas are more annoying rather ... Soon after the insects appear in large numbers in Georgia and the rest of the Southeast ...

Cicadas are also known for their buzzing and clicking noises, which can be amplified by multitudes of insects into an overpowering hum. Males produce this species-specific noise with vibrating ...

These curious creatures spend most of their lives in the ground, emerging after 13 or 17 years to eat, breed, die and repeat ...

Ground temperatures trigger when the cicadas will come out. No, they are different species of insects. Locusts belong to the same family of insects as grasshoppers. Locusts are far more ...

Palaeontinidae couldn’t make a big noise like modern cicadas. But they were large, with a wingspan half a foot across. Despite their spooky size, something triggered these massive insects to adapt.

Here’s how it works. The rapid evolution of cicadas' flight ability may have been spurred by the emergence of predatory birds, new research suggests. These insects' bodies and wing shapes ...

“You’re not going to find anybody who says that cicadas are kosher,” he said. “There are kosher insects, but they’re all species of grasshoppers and locusts. There are no kosher cicadas.

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.

The last time the cicadas emerged in many of those regions was in 2003 and 2004, though some areas saw an emergence in 2013. As many as 1.5 million of the insects can emerge per acre of land.