After 17 years underground, Brood X cicadas are emerging in some states, and along with the their arrival come earsplitting songs that will be the soundtrack to the summer. Not all cicadas make these ...

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HANOVER COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — There is a familiar drone in the air in some parts of Virginia as cicadas emerge from the ground, but this year there is some extra buzz as more than just the annual.

First came dime-size holes dotting my backyard. Out crawled the nymphs, leaving tiny semi-translucent husks clinging to tree trunks, like miniature rock-climbers with sudden onset vertigo. Soon the ...

Marvin Lo, Morton Arboretum tree root scientist, collects fallen periodical cicada specimens at the base of a tree on Thursday, June 6, 2024, at Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Ill. Trillions of once ...

WHEATON, Ill. — The most noticeable part of the cicada invasion blanketing the central United States is the sound — an eerie, amazingly loud song... RIVERWOODS, Ill. — The ground had seemed to ...

The sound abounds in the suburbs of Chicago, such as Oak Brook, but has already faded farther south in the state, including where two broods overlap. In an asphalt-laden DuPage County shopping plaza, ...

RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, ...