Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. This spring, billions of cicadas will emerge after more than a decade underground, ready to climb trees and make noise while singing to attract mates. However, some of these insects will not achieve their reproductive… Read More »
A cicada that is in harmony with its young is a cicada that has luck. Scientists say the synchronized emergence of insects is an evolutionary strategy. Birds, raccoons and other predators can only eat a certain amount of them. So the more cicadas that appear together, the greater the chance that more will reproduce and… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. This spring, billions of cicadas will emerge after more than a decade underground, ready to climb trees and make noise while singing to attract mates. However, some of these insects will not achieve their reproductive… Read More »
Tens of billions of noisy cicadas will burst from the ground in the coming weeks in a rare synchronized event that last occurred 221 years ago. Winged cicadas are expected to appear in the Midwest and Southeast starting in early May, with a double appearance of two different species of periodical cicadas. These insects spend… Read More »
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Parts of the United States are about to experience a rare natural phenomenon with the simultaneous appearance of two giant adjacent periodical cicada species. More than a trillion of these noisy insects are expected to pop out of the ground starting in April. The two broods, one concentrated in… Read More »
Cicada Safari Press, Tyler Le/BI For the first time in 221 years, two periodic cicada babies appear at the same time. Broods XIII and XIX overlap in a small portion of Illinois around Chicago. People can help scientists track these insects by using citizen science apps. 2024 is the year of the cicada apocalypse. This… Read More »