The noisy insects have been silent for a few months now, but come spring 2025 their songs will ring out again. Broods of ...

You might be mentally prepared for Illinois' massive cicada emergence coming up. But there's one part of the insect's arrival that you may have not considered: the surfacing of the Cicada Killer Wasp.

Cicadas are members of the superfamily Cicadoidea and are physically distinguished by their stout bodies, broad heads, clear-membraned wings, and large compound eyes. There are more than 3,000 ...

Spring into spring with billions of cicadas! This year, the U.S. will see the emergence of two large broods of cicadas, which have not emerged simultaneously in more than two centuries. The ...