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 ...
Brood XIV cicadas emerged across Centre County after 17 years underground. Millions of cicadas boost predator populations and nestling survival rates. Urban development limits cicada emergence by ...
In this YouTube video, a cicada sits on a leaf and, over the course of two hours, sheds its old self via molting. Molting is a biological process of transformation undergone by many creatures in the ...