Cicadas are on the move in central Kentucky and beyond as they emerge across the state after 17 years spent waiting for a chance to mate. Parts of central and eastern Kentucky will be the epicenter of ...

Diego Miró-Rivera has always been drawn to objects and spaces that others overlook. Cigarette butts, chunks of melting snow, and Texas mountain laurel seeds are among the materials the Austin artist ...

More than a dozen states will once again hear the buzzes and clicks of cicadas this year. It won’t be as bad as last spring, but the second-largest group of cicadas, known as Brood XIV will return ...

CYNTHIANA — Eight inches below ground, a buggy bomb ticks away. Millions of periodical cicadas bide their time, feasting on tree roots and counting the years. They don’t wear watches or keep calendars ...

While Cincinnati was spared from 2024's cicada emergence, the new year will bring another brood of 17-year cicadas.In 2025, Brood XIV (pronounced fourteen) will emerge from the ground beginning in mid ...

In this YouTube video, a cicada sits on a leaf and, over the course of two hours, sheds its old self via molting. Molting is a biological process of transformation undergone by many creatures in the ...

HANGING OUT: Cicadas’ only interest in annual vegetables might be to find an elevated place to molt and leave behind their nymph-phase exoskeleton. Photo by Chloe Lieberman Things are getting juicy ...

An adult cicada with large red eyes perches at the top of a daylily in Menifee County. George Campbell George Campbell Cicadas are on the move in central Kentucky and beyond as they emerge across the ...

Periodical cicadas, Brood XIV, emerge in parts of the eastern U.S. every 17 years. Scientists study cicadas to understand their unique life cycle, timekeeping abilities, and response to climate change ...