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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After spending more than a decade underground, trillions of amorous cicadas are noisily clamoring for a mate—and in a rare phenomenon, two broods are surfacing at once. Periodical cicadas live ...

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 ...

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, ...

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