They emerge from the ground every 13 or 17 years. — -- Another 17 years have passed for one brood of periodic cicadas -- the time has come for billions to emerge from the ground in deafening ...

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If you feel yourself besieged in the coming days, with cicadas whirring overhead, crunching underfoot and shrilling from the treetops, you may have yourself to blame, at least in part. A nice house in ...

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 ...

Every year in the United States, a certain family of insects emerges from the ground to spend the summer months eating, breeding and laying eggs. While last year two massive cicada broods emerged at ...

CINCINNATI - Brood X, the largest and most widespread brood of cicadas in the U.S., is set to emerge from the ground this spring after 17 years. The periodical cicadas, which are different than the ...

Cicadas have started to emerge around Cincinnati this year. This brood of cicadas is XIV (14), the latest brood of 17-year cicadas to emerge. Cincinnati, Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and ...

If you're getting irritated by the ear-piercing sound of this year's group of cicadas in and around Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio (and the mess they leave behind), you're probably wondering when ...

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Ohio is one of 13 states expecting cicadas this spring. While generally considered harmless to people, the loud, buzzing insects can pose a threat to certain types of trees and shrubs. In the ...