The Cicada COVID variant has been making headlines lately, though it isn’t the virus’s official scientific name.

Cicada Brood XIV, the second-largest periodical brood, has begun to emerge in some Eastern states. Along with some possible stragglers from other broods, including Brood I, Brood VI and Brood X, could emerge this year as well, according to the University ...

Cicadas of Brood XIV have begun to emerge this spring, starting in the Southeast and making their way to the Northeast. Brood XIV is a cohort of periodical cicadas, in which each succeeding generation of the insects emerges every 17 years. They emerge when ...

Cicadas have been annoying for as long as I can remember. The first time I remember them showing up in Maryland was when I was a teenager. Big, noisy bugs with red eyes, and they were absolutely everywhere. I remember cicadas invading everything with that ...

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 expected to emerge this spring and summer in ...

You may have already seen them attaching themselves to your house, garage and even car tires, but has the weather impacted the rise of Brood XIV cicadas in Cincinnati?This past week saw lower than average temperatures, leading some to wonder if it will ...

Last week, I noticed a huge wasp perched on a dried-up cucumber leaf. It was a male cicada killer wasp, Sphecius speciosus. These beneficial wasps show up each year shortly after the annual cicadas arrive, during the dog days of summer. These large wasps ...