One of the joys of my life is to spend spring and summer evenings on the screened porch of my home in Monteagle, Tennessee, listening to a serenade of chirping crickets. It is music to my ears. I am ...

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(NEXSTAR) – 2024 brought us “cicada-geddon,” a double awakening of two broods of periodical cicadas that swarmed much of the eastern United States over the spring and summer. The noisy insects have ...

We recently did a show about the cicada double broodemergence.Billions of the bugs areabove groundthisyear. And the conversation… took a bit of a turn… towards whether they can be eaten. (They can.) ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. After 17 years underground, Brood XIV ...

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 ...

In honor of their mass emergence after 17 years of hibernation, the Bess Bower Dunn Museum has unveiled a special exhibit, “Celebrating Cicadas.” The Libertyville museum has also launched an online ...

Every year without fail, cicadas come out of hiding to serenade us with their songs when the North Carolina weather warms up. Annual cicadas, sometimes referred to as “dog day” cicadas, usually emerge ...

Brood XIV cicadas are expected to emerge in Mass. in late May or early June 2025. The cicadas will remain for four to six weeks, generating noise up to 100 decibels. While widespread in the eastern ...