While Cincinnati was spared from 2024's cicada emergence, the new year will bring another brood of 17-year cicadas.

They stay buried year after year, until they surface and take over a landscape, covering houses with shed exoskeletons and making the ground crunchy. This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is ...

"The nymphs typically emerge from the soil in the evening and climb up trees or other objects and molt, leaving behind the familiar cicada shells or shed exoskeleton," the University of Illinois ...

Once the soil has reached a certain moisture, a cicada will emerge out of the ground, climb a nearby plant and grow its wings, leaving behind a the nymph’s exoskeleton. After the nymph has ...

They stay buried year after year, until they surface and take over a landscape, covering houses with shed exoskeletons and making the ground crunchy. This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is ...