Have you ever collected cicada shells? Fifty years ago, my childhood friends and I did. We would be outdoors playing tag or hide-and-seek, or digging worms for fish bait, and someone would issue the ...

Being able to hear the smallest of noises is a matter of life or death for many insects, but for the scientists studying their hearing systems understanding how insect ears can be so sensitive could ...

Magicicada septendecim, also known as Brood XIII, also known as the 17-year locust, also known as the Northern Illinois Brood, also known as the cicada you’re most likely to squash (with malice or not ...

NEWBERRY COUNTY, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - Cicadas are beginning to appear in South Carolina, and they’re apparently so loud people are reporting the noise to law enforcement. Cicadas make a loud buzzing ...

Pennsylvania managed to leave 2020 behind without a murder hornet-sighting. This year’s upcoming insect invasion shouldn’t come as a surprise. We’ve had a 17-year warning. Millions of cicadas will ...

The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious insects from feasting on ...

A new study may inspire aeronautical engineers to be more flexible with their designs. That’s because the bends and twists in locusts’ flexible, flapping wings power the insects’ extraordinary ...