Swooned, the females flap their wings in response and get the good times going. After they’re impregnated, the female cicadas ...

Naturalists have already spotted the first arrivals in a rare phenomenon during which cicadas will emerge across more than a ...

If you live in their path, you can expect to see a staggering number of these bugs dominating your local landscape — and ...

For residents of the Eastern and Midwestern United States, 2024 is shaping up to be a symphony of buzzing wings and crunchy ...

Two cicada broods are emerging at the same time this year, meaning the U.S. will see more cicadas than usual. Brood XIX, ...

Most of us have been stung by a bee and we know it's not much fun. But maybe we also felt a tinge of regret, or vindication, ...

The females will flick their wings to signal to the males they want to mate, Kasson said. The females lay their eggs in woody ...

After mating, female cicadas use their ovipositor—a spear-like structure—to slice into small trees, shrubs, and even ...

They're not going to kill your flowers or hurt your children or pets. After mating, females will insert their ovipositor into ...

(Only a small proportion of people are deathly allergic.) Talk about good PR. A stinger, at least in most bees, wasps and ...

Having a conversation outdoors in their presence will be challenging. Female cicadas have a saw-like ovipositor that cuts ...

I felt the familiar sting, narcotic, mildly pleasant. Then the blind probing of her ovipositor. The puncture was painless, easy. So easy going in. She undulated slowly against me, her muscles ...