Summer means a lot of things: hot weather, long nights and loud cicadas. And those noisy insects seem to be turning up the ...

During their juvenile stages, cicadas live underground and feed on sap from plant roots to survive ... Common Australian ...

The cicada life cycle has three stages: eggs, nymphs, and adults. Female cicadas can lay up to 400 eggs divided among dozens of sites—generally in twigs and branches. After six to 10 weeks ...

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

They spend much of their life cycle – years on end – underground as nymphs feeding on roots and drinking xylem. After they emerge, adult cicadas live for just a few weeks, then die after ...

and then reached out to an EPA scientist and photographed University of Maryland students who were sticking thermometers 8 inches into the ground to record soil temperatures and find the places where ...

While they are some of the longest-lived insects in the world, periodical cicadas spend almost their entire lives underground as what entomologists call "nymphs". They live in the soil and feed on ...