Say "Hello" to the Summer with this time-lapse of a cicada molting its skin.

In this YouTube video, a cicada sits on a leaf and, over the course of two hours, sheds its old self via molting. Molting is a biological process of transformation undergone by many creatures in the ...

Trillions of periodical cicadas will emerge from the ground this spring, bringing with them their loud buzzing and molted exoskeletons. Here's where you will be able to see cicadas in the U.S. – and ...

During the summer of 2011, billions of cicada eggs hatched inside tree twigs across the Southeast. The hatchlings, called nymphs, dropped down and burrowed into the ground, where they’ve been sucking ...

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More than a dozen states will once again hear the buzzes and clicks of cicadas this year. It won’t be as bad as last spring, but the second-largest group of cicadas, known as Brood XIV will return ...

"I can’t go on a walk without a lil crunch crunch under my feet," One Reddit user posted to the Cincinnati subreddit. The cicada invasion is underway in Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio. And the 17-year ...

Its cicada season, and Virginia is in the path of these interesting (and noisy!) insects. This year, Brood XIV returns for the first time since 2008, per AccuWeather, and they will indeed appear in ...

When scheduling a girls’ trip to Chicago with her younger cousin, Kat McHenry planned what any Chicago tourist would: Comparing deep dish pizza at Pequod’s and Lou Malnati’s, exploring at the Field ...