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

A familiar sight (and sound) will soon appear across 14 states as the next major brood of periodical cicadas emerges.Brood XIV will emerge in 14 states this May, including Ohio, Kentucky and ...

Cicadas, those loud, large but harmless insects, will soon emerge this spring after 17 years underground in Georgia. This brood, called Brood XIV, will begin their first mating season since 2008, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of periodical cicadas on a shrub. (Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph University) For the first time in 17 years, a certain ...

Seventeen years after the Brood XIV cicadas last emerged as adults and annoyed people with their loud buzzing calls, they're coming back. Residents along inner Cape Cod and over the bridge into ...

These bugs are buzzing through the desert and it's all because of monsoon season. But can they predict a storm? Here's what ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pretty as a picture: Entomologist Tawny Simisky shared a photo of an adult cicada, found May 23 at the Frances A. Crane Wildlife ...

Cicadas, those loud, large but harmless insects, will soon emerge this spring after 17 years underground in Georgia. This brood, called Brood XIV, will begin their first mating season since 2008, ...