Eastern cicada killers, also known as giant cicada killers, are a family of large wasps roughly 1-1.5 inches long with clear, brownish-wings and black-and-yellow patterns similar to most wasps.

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – If you thought Cows on Parade was something, wait until you see the giant cicadas. An Avondale not-for-profit museum, The Insect Asylum, is co-sponsoring a citywide exhibit ...

Spring is approaching, and soon, the buzz of cicadas will permeate throughout neighborhoods in the eastern half of the United States. This year, cicadas from Brood XIV will be seen – and heard ...

Billions of cicadas in New York, New Jersey and 11 other states will come out of a 17-year-long hibernation in two months – and make their presence known with their famously noisy mating call ...

Three species of cicada that only emerge once every 17 years are gearing up to spring to the surface in droves, when they will plague several regions on the East Coast with swarms of insects that ...

While the great cicada emergence of 2024 brought a historic convergence of cicada broods, what will happen in 2025? Turns out, another is emergence is on the horizon, and while this one could once ...

has just caught a giant cicada (Palaeontinodes reshuitangensis). Resting the underside of a fern leaf, is a large butterfly-like lacewing (Limnogramma hani) of the extinct family Kalligrammatidae.

Spring is approaching, and soon, the buzz of cicadas will permeate throughout neighborhoods in the eastern half of the United States. This year, cicadas from Brood XIV will be seen – and heard ...