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It starts like any ordinary play scene: a dollhouse living room, tiny couch, and TV. But instead of Barbie and Ken? Rows of brittle cicada shells are carefully propped in their places, “watching” the ...

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 ...

Periodical cicadas, Brood XIV, emerge in parts of the eastern U.S. every 17 years. Scientists study cicadas to understand their unique life cycle, timekeeping abilities, and response to climate change ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. North Carolina is in the middle of a hot summer, which means it won’t be long before annual cicadas make their first appearance of ...

Cicadas are proving to be more than just a noisy nuisance this season, as one of the pesky insects apparently caused a car crash in the Cincinnati area. According to a crash report, a cicada flew into ...

Cicadas have emerged in large numbers across Cincinnati, Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeast Indiana. The 17-year periodical cicadas, Brood XIV, are expected to die off in mid-June, about ...