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This past summer, Isabel Wherry's daughter, Aspen, noticed a dead cicada in their front yard in Illinois. She named it Cicady, and now, months later, she hasn’t let it leave her sight. "She had an ...

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- Would you eat a cicada? Some high school students in Princeton, New Jersey are using the Brood X cicada emergence to spread the word about the benefits of eating insects. The ...

Animals had no trouble grabbing headlines in 2025, from a close encounter with a whale off the coast of Chile to viral bald ...

A cicada is a large insect with long transparent wings that makes a loud, shrill droning noise. They spend most of their life underground, until they emerge, mate, reproduce and start the cycle all ...

BALTIMORE, Md. — In neighborhoods and city parks in parts of the country, Americans are being greeted by the distinct buzzing sound of cicadas emerging after nearly two decades of growing underground.

This spring, as the soil warms, a cohort of cicada nymphs that has been living amid tree roots for 17 years is due to begin tunneling toward the surface. In decades past the emergence of a cicada ...

Beneath your feet, entombed but alive, may be multitudes of cicadas, wingless and waiting to emerge, to fly, and to mate. If you have heard about the excitement of people experiencing Brood X out East ...