These cicadas get their name from the term “dog days of summer,” because they show up during the peak of the season.

If you've been outside in the past few weeks you've likely heard a high-pitched — very loud — buzz emanating from at least a few trees: Michigan's dog day cicadas are out and about once again.

The theory has some scientific logic behind it.

When you hear them, you know it's about to get hot.

Billions of Brood X cicadas temporarily emerged this summer after being underground for 17 years. They were only around for a few weeks — but now, a new and larger type of cicada has arrived to take ...

Social media is buzzing with Brood XIX sightings from Upstate residents. In Facebook groups, excited residents have shared photographs and footage of cicadas they have seen in their backyards and ...

Some cicadas appear every year in Illinois. Last year, the Prairie State was the cicada capital of the country. This year's cicada emergence will be far less dramatic. Love 'em or loathe 'em, some ...

Periodical cicadas, Brood XIV, will emerge in Massachusetts in the next few weeks. Cicadas, unlike locusts, do not swarm or decimate crops. Both cicadas and locusts are herbivores, but cicadas are ...