Over the past few weeks, Brood XIII 17-year cicadas have emerged in parts of southern Wisconsin and the Midwest for the first time since 2007. Along with the crunchy carcasses they leave behind, ...

The sound of summer’s height is the cicada. You always hear the first one. It’s a sound you haven’t thought about for months, but, ah: the whine, the drone, the rattling diminution. There you are!

Do you hear a loud hissing sound during the day? Yes, it sounds eerie, but it's a natural phenomenon. Dog-day cicadas appear throughout Texas during the summer months. Here is why these insects are ...

Around Australia, the buzz-saw siren of cicadas heralds the beginning of summer. With 237 recorded species of cicada in Australia, almost no area of the country is untouched by their song. Up to 800 ...

For many Illinois residents, the droning call of cicadas is central to summer's soundscape. But this year looks — and sounds — a bit different, courtesy of a timely collision between cicada Broods ...

HUNTINGTON — With the warmer weather and clearer skies that come every summer also come cicadas, insects that emerge from underground every year in the final stage of their life cycle to mate and ...

PLAN ACCORDINGLY. JUST ABOUT EVERY 17 YEARS, THEY EMERGE BY THE MILLIONS. THEY ARE LOUD AND MENACING. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT CICADAS. NEW TONIGHT, WEATHERWATCH 12 METEOROLOGIST GINO RECCHIA SHOWS US ...

Shhhooo. Wee-uuu. Chick, chick, chick. That’s the sound of three different cicada species. For some people, those sounds are the song of the summer. Others wish the insects would turn it down. The ...

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