CHICAGO — Carole Will McDonald didn’t think she would find a blue-eyed cicada when she went looking for one in her front yard in Niles. It was a one-in-a-million shot, she understood ...

Cicadas are members of the superfamily Cicadoidea and are physically distinguished by their stout bodies, broad heads, clear-membraned wings, and large compound eyes. There are more than 3,000 ...

The Great Cicada Emergence of 2024, a bug hatch of monumental proportions that can make for some amazing fly fishing opportunities. Think of it as a Montana Hopper hatch on steroids. It will be ...

First there was “the dress,” then there was the sneakers, now there’s a debate over the color blue. If you’ve ever argued with a friend over whether something is blue or green, you’re ...

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Periodical cicadas have a very strange lifecycle. They spend 13 or 17 years underground (depending on the brood), and then suddenly emerge in their billions over the course of a few weeks.

A sprawling network of ravines threaded through Canada’s largest city offers urban explorers an oasis of birdsong, burbling ...

The numbers 13 and 17 are also prime numbers, and so-called “periodical” cicadas have life cycles of exactly 13 or 17 years. This year, trillions of those creatures are emerging in various U.S ...

Thrasher first got into crystalization in college, when his interest in chemistry and mineralogy collided. After some ...