Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas’ wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, scientists say. By Jack Tamisiea Today, few critters are as abundant as cicadas.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This fossil of an adult female cicada is remarkably well preserved. It was found in the Messel Pit in Germany, in rocks that are ...

When dinosaurs thundered across the land, a giant, cicada-like bug called Palaeontinidae flew in the sky and fed on tree sap. But something disturbed its peaceful existence — and triggered the ...

The 17-year cicada emergence is happening on Cape Cod and nearby areas. Cicadas are members of hemiptera, or true bugs. Citizen scientists can join the Cicada Brood XIV count. Woo! Science is a column ...

The historic cicada invasion is upon us! Noisy flying insects known as cicadas have begun emerging from the ground and have been spotted buzzing around North Carolina and South Carolina before they ...

One of the most peculiar of North America’s natural wonders — the synchronized mass mating frenzies of big, obsessed insects called periodical cicadas — is playing out across the southeastern and ...

This spring, as the soil warms, a cohort of cicada nymphs that has been living amid tree roots for 17 years is due to begin tunneling toward the surface. In decades past the emergence of a cicada ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Field Museum of Natural History hosted a dinner Tuesday night with bugs on the menu and some entomological education for visitors. The "Bug Bites" event was inspired by the ...

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(KSDK) - There are imposters hidden among Missouri's emerging periodical cicadas. While the insects are near the end of their life cycle and begin mating, some cicadas have been hijacked and are using ...

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