Google “are cicadas weird insects” and an Associated Press explainer is the first thing you will find. Dig into Seth Borenstein’s piece deep enough and he promises they aren’t really all that weird.

Spending a day with insects may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but this event is so much more than that. Insect-ival is an event held every year by the University of Georgia entomology department, the ...

For almost 30 years they passed as quirky eccentrics, diligently setting up their insect traps in the Rhine countryside to collect tens of millions of bugs and creepy crawlers. Now the group of German ...