These curious creatures spend most of their lives in the ground, emerging after 13 or 17 years to eat, breed, die and repeat ...

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 ...

When dinosaurs thundered across the land, a giant, cicada-like bug called Palaeontinidae ... living an idyllic life munching on the sticky substance inside woody trees, plants that had only ...

The research suggests predation by birds drove this rapid development in an evolutionary "air race," culminating in cicadas that more closely resembled modern species. But ancient giant cicadas ...

Like contemporary cicadas, the beefier palaeontinidae cicadas lived in trees and slurped up plant fluid. These giant cicadas left lots of fossils, including some that preserve detailed imprints of ...

ROCK COUNTY, Wis. (WMTV) - A cicada presentation Thursday highlighted the life cycle and ecology of the little critters as they continue to ring out across parts of southern Wisconsin. The event ...

It turns out the best way to avoid periodical predators is to move to a life cycle that lasts a prime number of years. To see this, suppose a cicada has 12-year life cycle. Whenever it comes out ...

This is like the life cycle of cicadas. Prime numbers are intriguing numbers indeed. —The Asahi Shimbun, June 6 Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a popular daily column that takes up a wide range of topics ...