Illinois is the center of the cicada emergence that is on the way. Two groups of cicadas are expected at once, leaving some people queasy, others thrilled. Students at Cumberland Elementary School in ...

Hold on. Orkin’s Pest Control is making music out of an upcoming end-of-the-world-level invasion of loud bugs? Is that like making lemons out of lemonade? Or is it more like Hannibal Lecter having a ...

An adult periodical cicada flutters in a spider web at Lincoln Memorial Garden and Nature Center in Springfield, Ill., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Trillions of once hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the ...

They’re noisy and they’re disgusting looking. The buzzing sound from the trees is a springtime staple in North Alabama. They dive bomb unsuspecting pedestrians. Their carcasses litter the sidewalk.

Cicadas are the song of the summer, especially around St. Louis, but this year’s large broods may be especially irritating for people on the autism spectrum who have hearing sensitivity. ST. LOUIS — ...

Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised to put on quite a show starting this month in a wide swath of the United States. Two sizable adjacent ...

Worried about swarms of loud bugs interrupting the rest of your spring? In over a dozen states, that will soon be a fear that comes to pass, as trillions of cicadas are preparing to emerge from the ...

A drop of water lands on the back of a periodical cicada, a member of Brood X, on June 03, 2021 in Columbia, Maryland. They're loud. They're sexually aroused. And for one special, cacophonous month up ...

The historic 2024 cicada emergence in the upper Midwest is now underway, but with two broods of cicadas emerging this spring, some groups are urging residents to celebrate their arrival, rather than ...