Ancient birds shaped cicada wing evolution, leading to faster, stronger wings for survival. This reveals insights into ...

In 2024, two distinct broods of cicadas will emerge after a 13-year dormancy, affecting 18 states across the nation. Notably, ...

This spring and summer, people in parts of the American Midwest and South will get to experience a numerically magnificent ...

Miró-Rivera, who returned to his hometown last year after graduating from Yale University with degrees in art and cognitive science, has been interested in cicadas since the fall of 2023. That’s when ...

A recent study on global giant cicadas by Chinese scientists has provided novel insight on the adaptive aerodynamic evolution ...

A team comprising Usui, 66, an insect researcher in Ageo in the prefecture, and Masami Hayashi, 71, a professor emeritus of bug taxonomy at Saitama University, who is well-versed in cicadas ...

Cicadas are members of the superfamily Cicadoidea and are physically distinguished by their stout bodies, broad heads, clear-membraned wings, and large compound eyes. There are more than 3,000 ...

Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Keith David, and a lack of bozos… It can only be 2000’s “Pitch Black,” one of the finer entries in the always-popular “Alien” homage movie genre. We enthuse about elevated ...

Meanwhile, Washington-based photographer Carolyn Kaster made it her mission to document the bugs she called “beautifully weird.” She had first encountered the Brood X cicadas 17 years ago in ...

The numbers 13 and 17 are also prime numbers, and so-called “periodical” cicadas have life cycles of exactly 13 or 17 years. This year, trillions of those creatures are emerging in various U.S ...

Unlike greenish, annual cicadas, periodical cicadas are known for their black bodies, clear wings and bold red eyes. They breathe through 10 pairs of spiracles, two of which are on the thorax ...

The weirdest news from 2021, from talking ducks to scary croissants Cicadas came and went – but not quietly If there was an award show for animals, cicadas would probably sweep all the major ...