Brood XIX, a brood of 13-year periodical cicadas, will emerge from Western North Carolina's soil within the next few weeks. Will the cold snap slow them down? Here's what to know. Brood XIX, also ...

In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. At the same time, around the mid-Atlantic region, small holes in the ground were ...

When the trillions of periodical cicadas emerge in multiple Midwestern and Southeastern states next month, they will face a unique predator with murderous intent: cicada killer wasps. Cicada killer ...

Recently, some states in the US have been dealing with a significant influx of cicadas. Multiple US media reported that two periodical cicada broods are appearing in a 16-state area in the Midwest and ...

One day in August, a nesting colony of female eastern cicada killers in the soil of a suburban lawn was pointed out to me. That gathering of wasps was in a habitat their species prefers to raise young ...

The cicadas were humming their welcome to summer on a lazy hot afternoon at First Landing State Park. But the cicada killer wasps were full of energy, buzzing and zooming all over two mounds of almost ...

North Carolina residents will hear that telltale drone early this year when periodical 13-year cicadas emerge in the state – part of a rare U.S. "co-emergence" with a second periodical brood. The ...

Their mating songs can reach up to 90 decibels. In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. At the same time, around the ...

Known as the cicada killer, these wasps can grow up to two inches long and are either black or brown, with colorful yellow markings on several segments of their abdomen – very similar to the Asian ...

In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. At the same time, around the mid-Atlantic region, small holes in the ground were ...