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 mid-Atlantic region, small holes in the ground were ...

CINCINNATI - Brood X, the largest and most widespread brood of cicadas in the U.S., is set to emerge from the ground this spring after 17 years. The periodical cicadas, which are different than the ...

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- Would you eat a cicada? Some high school students in Princeton, New Jersey are using the Brood X cicada emergence to spread the word about the benefits of eating insects. The ...

The cicadas are back – well, some of them. Brood XIV has begun to emerge in some eastern U.S. states. The brood emerges every 17 years, and is considered the second largest periodical cicada brood, ...

Sifting through a shovel load of dirt in a suburban backyard, Michael Raupp and Paula Shrewsbury find their quarry: a cicada nymph. And then another. And another. And four more. In maybe a third of a ...

Brood XIV cicadas are set to emerge in about 13 states in 2025. The periodical brood of the insects last appeared in 2008. This year, Brood XIV periodical cicadas are set to emerge from the ground for ...

PERRY COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — In terms of fame and fortune — well, okay… maybe not fortune, but certainly fame! — no brood of 17-year cicadas matches Brood X, which last emerged in 2021. Anyone old ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Cicadas are showing up in North Carolina as millions are expected to emerge across the eastern part of the U.S. "It's a natural phenomenon that doesn't occur anywhere else in the ...

A Brood X cicada after emerging in Mifflin County in 2021. Brood XIV have started to emerge in parts of Pennsylvania and other states in 2025. They're back! The cicadas, that is. In particular Brood ...

The Brood XIV cicada is one of 15 different types of periodical cicadas. The Brood XIV was last spotted in New Jersey in 2008. Millions of the noisy insects are set to appear in at least 13 states ...

FLY-FISHERS in the eastern half of the U.S. are eagerly anticipating a hatch 17 years in the making: the Brood X cicada emergence. From around mid-May through June, billions of these chubby bugs will ...