This story was updated to correct the date of the crash. Cicadas are proving to be a bigger terror (aside from their ear-piercing screams and chaotic flying patterns ...

Earlier this year, the U.S. was introduced to murder hornets, fierce predators that can decapitate an entire honey bee hive in hours. But these rare, invasive insects (which have only been spotted in ...

Have you hit a cicada while driving 50 mph? The bugs leave a messy splatter mark on your vehicle. And when they collide into your windshield at 60-plus mph, there’s an explosion of bug guts that can ...

This year, portions of 13 states may be impacted by Brood XIV, the second-largest periodical brood of cicadas, according to ...

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 ...

Zoom in far enough on an empress cicada wing, and a strange landscape materializes. At the nanoscale, densely packed spires ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — They’re big. They buzz. Lately, these little flying critters spotted all over Albuquerque. We’re talking about Cicada Killer Wasps. Yes, that’s their real name — and if you’ve seen ...

The spring of 2021 will bring the emergence of Cicada Brood X, a 17-year periodical cicada. These cicadas will number in the billions and will emerge across 15 states, including Indiana. With billions ...

This story contains interviews with Tekknolagi, the student who solved the Cicada 3301 puzzle. In January I wrote a story about the one person who is known to have made it further down the Cicada 3301 ...