Few insects can compare with the alarm caused by Cicada Killer Wasps—Sphecius speciosus. These large solitary wasps are also known as Giant Cicada Killers or Sand Hornets. This last common name is a ...

Periodical cicadas are expected to emerge in New Jersey this May. Here is everything you need to know about Brood XIV and this year's emergence.

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Hornets, yellow jackets, Polistes, mud daubers, and the cicada killer are all wasps, a group of beneficial insects that attack and destroy other insects found around homes and in gardens. Wasps, ...

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures ... Typically, kilowatts are quiet when they're searching for prey because sound travels incredibly well in water. And so they could alert ...

Isabel Wherry tells PEOPLE her daughter named the cicada, Cicady Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

This past summer, Isabel Wherry's daughter, Aspen, noticed a dead cicada in their front yard in Illinois. She named it Cicady, and now, months later, she hasn’t let it leave her sight.

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SCIENTISTS ARE ASKING FOR HELP DOCUMENTING THE BUGS THROUGH THE FREE APP CICADA SAFARI. YOU GO OUT WITH THE APP ON YOUR PHONE, TURN YOUR GPS ON AND WHAT HAVE YOU, AND YOU FIND CICADAS. YOU ...

The sound, or song, differs among species and serves as a mating call. "Some people can identify the cicadas to species just by listening to their singing," Portugal said. The 2024 cicada hatch ...