CHICAGO (CBS) -- The periodical cicada broods are coming – and while harmless, they're famously quite noisy and loud. The noise will be hard to miss. But it won't all even be the same noise – as there ...

Around Australia, the buzz-saw siren of cicadas heralds the beginning of summer. With 237 recorded species of cicada in Australia, almost no area of the country is untouched by their song. Up to 800 ...

Pictured is a cicada that recently emerged in Oktibbeha County as part of a 13-year periodical brood. The rare emergence not only brought more insects out of the ground, but also additional noise as ...

Southern India's cicadas orchestrate a stunning dawn chorus, beginning precisely at civil twilight. Thousands of these ...

The sound of summer’s height is the cicada. You always hear the first one. It’s a sound you haven’t thought about for months, but, ah: the whine, the drone, the rattling diminution. There you are!

The moment you exit your car in front of the Lake Geneva Public Library, the sound is overwhelming. Millions of Brood XIII 17-year cicadas have swarmed the southeastern Wisconsin city, and their ...

For the first time since Thomas Jefferson’s presidency, two broods of cicadas are emerging from the ground at the same time in the Midwest and Southeast. The cicadas are part of Brood 17 and Brood 19.

Editor's note: This is the latest edition of Curious Mississippi, a service to the readers of the Clarion Ledger. Other questions answered by Curious Mississippi have surrounded recycling, potholes, ...

New species of cricket, Ajareta sairandhriensis, breaks a National Park's reputation as a “silent valley” with its nighttime songs.