Anyone who's stepped outside in the last few days would have heard the roaring buzz of cicadas coming from the trees across ...

Adding a key element, Health & Science video journalist Kathy Young and Ritzel joined forces to produce an animated video explainer on the life cycle of cicadas. The animation, guest-narrated by Allen ...

North American cicadas have life cycles that last for prime numbers of years. Why 13 or 17 years? Why not 12, 14, 15 or 16? One explanation asks us to imagine the cicadas are hunted by periodical ...

The cicada life cycle has three stages: eggs, nymphs, and adults. Female cicadas can lay up to 400 eggs divided among dozens of sites—generally in twigs and branches. After six to 10 weeks ...

Summer means a lot of things: hot weather, long nights and loud cicadas. But are those noisy insects turning up the decibels ...

Loud as aeroplanes and the sound of summer, the buzz of cicadas are part of the Australian summer. But they're louder than usual this year.

Aussie wildlife rangers have shared the incredible and rarely seen moment a cicada sheds its exoskeleton – a key transition ...

Years of ongoing hot weather may also play a role in the insect’s life cycle, as warmer conditions can lead to shorter lifespans in adult cicadas. “It is possible that we’re getting multiple ...

It is far from certain that the New Forest population is extinct as it has a very erratic and apparently rather unpredictable life cycle. Most adults are unable to hear its very high pitched call and ...