Artists, entrepreneurs transform cicadas from 'ick' to 'in demand' while building community
Cicadas seem to be everywhere these days.
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Up close and personal, cicadas display Nature's artwork. Discerning beholders find beauty in bugs.
With rich reds, gentle greens and basic blacks, Nature's screaming, crawling artwork is the epitome of rare beauty—at least in the eyes of some beholders. To others, it may seem just creepy.
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2024
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After a 17-year wait, cicadas emerge a little early in Chicago area: 'It's a milestone'
It's official, Chicagoland. Periodical cicadas have arrived.
Ecology
May 20, 2024
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Cicadas will soon descend on Las Vegas—but not the ones you think
Every year, when spring bleeds into summer, the desert heat awakes a chorus of Las Vegas singers that rival any residency you'll find on the Strip—cicadas.
Ecology
Apr 29, 2024
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The cicadas are coming: An entomologist's take on a once-in-200-years event
Get ready. Billions of trillions of singing, winged insects with big red eyes are about to emerge from more than a decade of sleep underground.
Plants & Animals
Apr 12, 2024
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Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It's the biggest bug emergence in centuries
Trillions of evolution's bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.
Plants & Animals
Apr 1, 2024
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Cicadas are nature's weirdos. They pee stronger than us and an STD can turn them into zombies
The periodical cicadas that are about to infest two parts of the United States aren't just plentiful, they're downright weird.
Plants & Animals
Apr 1, 2024
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Illinois will soon be cicada central when two broods converge on state in historic emergence
When his youngest daughter was born early in the summer of 2004 in Washington, D.C., John Lill and his wife could hear cicadas singing from inside the hospital.
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2024
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Cicada killer wasp: It's big, but it's not a 'murder hornet'
Each summer since the release of information about Northern giant hornets being found in Washington state in 2020, Texas A&M AgriLife entomologists have been inundated with questions and reported sightings.
Plants & Animals
Jul 29, 2022
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Brood X Cicadas left their mark on soils
Long after the deafening cacophony of the Brood X cicadas ended in mid-June, their ecological legacy was still playing out underground, according to a new study of cicada burrow-riddled ground being presented at the AGU Fall ...
Ecology
Dec 13, 2021
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