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 ...

In another few weeks, millions of locust-like bugs called cicadas will emerge from 17 years of underground slumber to screech and fly around some 24 counties in central Pennsylvania for about six ...

We’re already calling what the sound of the summer is going to be. No, it’s not a hot new album or a trending TikTok audio — it’s thousands of screaming cicadas. If you live in the South, Northeast or ...

A cicada molts its shell in this file photo. Billions of them are set to emerge this summer with Kentucky at the epicenter. Misty Zban/provided Cicada Brood XIV, also known as the “Bourbon Brood” for ...

Some cicadas appear every year in Illinois. Last year, the Prairie State was the cicada capital of the country. This year's cicada emergence will be far less dramatic. Love 'em or loathe 'em, some ...