In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. At the same time, around the mid-Atlantic region, small holes in the ground were ...

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 ...

Last year, Western North Carolina didn't see much of the infamous double emergence of periodical cicada Broods XIX and XIII. While there is no periodical double emergence this year, the region can ...

This year's cicada emergence was a double whammy of insects, with two groups of periodical cicadas that only come out of the ground every 13 or 17 years making a simultaneous appearance. But even ...

Insects called "oak leaf itch mites" may be to blame for a spread of red bug bites this summer – and cicadas are serving as unwitting accomplices. Also known by their scientific name Pyemotes herfsi, ...

Last week, I noticed a huge wasp perched on a dried-up cucumber leaf. It was a male cicada killer wasp, Sphecius speciosus. These beneficial wasps show up each year shortly after the annual cicadas ...

Cincinnati will likely be swarming with cicadas by the second week of May. The Brood XIV (14) bugs will be the latest brood of 17-year cicadas to emerge, making Cincinnati, Southwest Ohio, Northern ...

It’s the season for cicadas again, and this year Oklahoma is going to miss the major brood birth, which will occur around the Kentucky and Tennessee, biologists say. Kelly Agnew, a Tulsa biologist who ...

Cicadas are poised to return at some point in the spring of 2025, potentially bringing billions of bugs to neighborhoods across the eastern United States. Cicadas this year will likely be concentrated ...

HAVE BEEN SINGING KELLY ANN. YES, YOU CAN CERTAINLY HEAR THEIR BUZZ HERE ON CAPE COD. ONE OF THE MAIN SPOTS TO FIND THESE 17 YEAR CICADAS IN OUR AREA OUTSIDE OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. THERE’S ONLY TWO ...

Male cicadas have so-called Timpany, which are little drum cavities on the underside of the bellies. They look a little bit like bent and shaped flaps. The timpany are really good at amplifying the ...