A select group of cicadas have joined the likes of Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra as blue-eyed wonders that know how to attract America’s attention. An Illinois arboretum is abuzz after a blue ...

“I thought it was cool and unique and had not heard that blue-eyed cicadas even existed,” Bailey explained. After taking some photos, the children later let the critter go. It was only until ...

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

In late September, seven years to the day the crispy shells of a mass cicada brood last littered NSW’s Blue Mountains, an army of nymphs arose once more. “The big emergence was the night of ...

a neuroscience professor at Bar-Ilan University in Israel who explores exotic kosher food on the side, locusts are kosher (despite their starring role in the Ten Plagues), but cicadas are not.

Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas’ wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, scientists say. By Jack Tamisiea Today, few critters are as abundant as cicadas.