For the most part, female cicada killers keep their stings for cicadas. Females can sting humans if they are provoked, which they normally don’t become. As a nonaggressive insect, the only time ...

Although they aren't problematic to people or property the vast majority of the time, there is another breed of insect that ...

noticed a dead cicada in their front yard in Illinois. She named it Cicady, and now, months later, she hasn’t let it leave her sight. "She had an immediate interest in the bug," the 27-year-old ...

We are starting to see the most impressive wasp found in Ohio. Eastern cicada killers (Specius speciosus) are large, solitary wasps. The cicada killer is one of the largest wasps in North America.

They emerge every 17 years and 2025 is their year to make their return. They apparently don’t show up quietly, either! According to an article by CBS News, the Brood XIV cicadas are known for their ...

With 13-year cicadas now swarming St. louis and 17-year cicadas emerging elsewhere, scientists are calling on all of us to go on a cicada safari to help them study this rare, natural phenomenon.

For first time in 221 years, two cicada broods to emerge in Indiana simultaneously, The Indianapolis Star: Cicadas are buzzing back to Indiana in 2024, and in a big way say bug experts. For the first ...

(NEXSTAR) – 2024 brought us “cicada-geddon,” a double awakening ... Check out superfans, who eat the bugs “All they do is just climb up on trees and pee. That’s as much damage as they ...

Some insect aficionados have decided to turn lemons into lemonade — or rather, make a meal out of cicada season. Those who've tried eating cicadas have called them "the shrimp of the land." ...