WHEATON, Ill. — The most noticeable part of the cicada invasion blanketing the central United States is the sound — an eerie, amazingly loud song that gets in a person's ears and won't let much else ...

Do you hear a loud hissing sound during the day? Yes, it sounds eerie, but it's a natural phenomenon. Dog-day cicadas appear throughout Texas during the summer months. According to Cicada Mania, these ...

The reverberating clicking noise that cicadas make is one of the most distinct sounds of all insects, but how exactly do they make it? Cicadas have existed in North America for millions of years, with ...

Some cicadas appear every year in Illinois. Last year, the Prairie State was the cicada capital of the country. This year's cicada emergence will be far less dramatic. Love 'em or loathe 'em, some ...

PHOTO BY DEBRA BURROWS An adult cicada from Brood XIV which emerged in Clinton County in 2025 is pictured resting on leaves. For the past several weeks, periodical cicadas have emerged in the wooded ...

BLUE ASH, Ohio — This was not the day of the locust. But a cicada startled an Ohio driver when it flew into the window of a vehicle, causing a rollover crash, authorities said. According to a social ...

Cicadas are screaming across parts of Cincinnati and beyond.The Brood XIV cicadas have emerged and are causing chaos in parts of the region.Many have noticed - it's hard not to - their cicada symphony ...

Though their numbers vary from place to place, you likely have seen and for sure heard the periodical cicada, which has emerged this year in vast numbers and creating a loud drone during the warm part ...

The 17-year cicada emergence is happening on Cape Cod and nearby areas. Cicadas are members of hemiptera, or true bugs. Citizen scientists can join the Cicada Brood XIV count. Woo! Science is a column ...

The oldest known fossil of a singing cicada reveals that these insects were making music during the Eocene epoch — long before humans existed. “The fossil has been in the collection of the Senckenberg ...

They're emerging on the Cape. Cicada Brood XIV, the second-largest periodical brood, is emerging after spending the last 17 years underground. Since the last time this brood emerged was in 2008 and ...