The life cycle of the muscular little plane they called the L1 Cicada was tragically short. Nearly a century later, hope lingers that another of these flying marvels could hatch. If luck breaks their ...

A unique fishing opportunity is about to happen in central and southcentral Pennsylvania and fly tyers are getting ready to “splat” their flies on the water for this once-in-a-17-year opportunity. The ...

In the coming weeks, many areas of central Pennsylvania will experience a most interesting natural spectacle — the emergence of the periodical cicada. These large, noisy bugs are sometimes incorrectly ...

If you live in Missouri, they've already gone. But back East, cicadas are about to climb out of their little holes in the ground, wriggle out of their skins, like ...

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 ...

Ah, the sweet summer song of cicadas buzzing... and buzzing... and oh my GOODNESS, when will they stop buzzing?! As Dr. Reinhard Lakes-Harlan at the University of Giessen explains it, “Only the males ...

A periodical cicada. Brood XIV have begun their emergence from the soil. 15 periodical cicada broods exist in the U.S. – the numeral XIV, or fourteen, means it was the 14th brood observed by ...

Large yellow and black wasps almost the size of a human thumb will soon be flying around the late Kentucky summer, hunting for cicadas. The cicada killer wasp is often mistaken for the so-called ...

Brood XIV cicadas will be emerging in Pennsylvania, creating a unique fishing opportunity. Fly tyers are creating imitation cicadas, focusing on the "splat" sound they make when hitting the water.