This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WTAJ) — The current brood of cicadas, Brood ...

A group of periodical cicadas on a shrub. (Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph University) For the first time in 17 years, a certain type of insect has emerged from the depths of the underground. Brood XIV ...

Billions of bugs are emerging from the soil across a large swath of the United States in a natural phenomenon last witnessed in 1803. It involves two broods, or groups, of periodical cicadas, insects ...

Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas are starting to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, ...

This year, the periodical cicada Brood XIV (14) will emerge during the springtime in 12 states. Typically beginning in May and ending in late June, millions of cicadas with a 17-year life span will ...