Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Periodical cicadas (Magicicada spp.) have one of the strangest ...

The life cycle of the muscular little plane they called the L1 Cicada was tragically short. Nearly a century later, hope lingers that another of these flying marvels could hatch. If luck breaks their ...

CHICAGO — Now that cicada season is coming to an end, what can you do with their exoskeletons? Well, we already know cicada carcasses can be used for fertilizer or mulch — but they can also be ...

Cicada chaos is flourishing and flying, and will be for at least another couple weeks in the Chicago area. Trillions of once-hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the trees and perching upon people's ...

The historic 2024 co-emergence of two cicada broods is coming to an end. The Great Northern Illinois Brood, a.k.a. Brood XIII, reached peak emergence nearly two weeks ago, and the number of bugs in ...

An adult cicada with large red eyes perches at the top of a daylily in Menifee County. George Campbell George Campbell Cicadas are on the move in central Kentucky and beyond as they emerge across the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The cicada invasion is coming to an end in Illinois. Now, residents just have to deal with the dead bugs and tree netting. Spencer Campbell with the Morton Arboretum joined ABC7 ...

When it comes to cicadas, people either love them, don't mind them … or eat cicadas as a snack. No matter, though, there's no denying the colorful, relatively harmless and non-invasive bug. And what ...

Large yellow and black wasps almost the size of a human thumb will soon be flying around the late Kentucky summer, hunting for cicadas. The cicada killer wasp is often mistaken for the so-called ...

In this YouTube video, a cicada sits on a leaf and, over the course of two hours, sheds its old self via molting. Molting is a biological process of transformation undergone by many creatures in the ...