This summer is the first time since 2007 that the 17-year cicadas will emerge. Although some cicada species come out every year, Brood XIIIs spend most of their lives underground as juveniles ...

every 13 or every 17 years (depending on the brood). This year’s “cicada-geddon” is brought to us by Brood XIX, which emerges ...

Love or hate 'em, cicadas took over Middle Tennessee last summer. They were loud, even scary to some, but they're also great ...

The 17-year and 13-year periodical cicadas returned to the Chicago area this year, and I became the Sun-Times' de facto ...

The names Boophis kirki, Boophis picardi, Boophis siskoi, Boophis janewayae, Boophis archeri, Boophis pikei, and Boophis ...

tenacity and multiformat collaboration to bring a fresh perspective to a widely covered natural phenomenon happening every 17 years. Borenstein, an AP science writer, had done cicada stories before ...

two separate broods of cicadas emerged at the same time. One group emerges from their underground burrows every 13 years; the other emerges every 17 years. Their emergence prompted warnings for ...

annual cicadas, which are spotted every year, and periodical cicadas, which spend most of their lives underground and only emerge once every decade or two. While annual cicadas can be found ...