North Carolina is in the middle of a hot summer, which means it won’t be long before annual cicadas make their first appearance of the year to serenade us with their never-ending songs. Cicadas begin ...

Every year without fail, cicadas come out of hiding to serenade us with their songs when the North Carolina weather warms up. Annual cicadas, sometimes referred to as “dog day” cicadas, usually emerge ...

CNN — (CNN) — A spectacular wonder of nature or an anxiety-inducing nuisance? It depends on whom you ask. Naturalists have already spotted the first arrivals in a rare phenomenon during which cicadas ...

Daylight saving time is finally here, and all that extra sunlight will soon be accompanied by a symphony of sound. The Brood XIV cicadas are set to emerge in North Carolina sometime in late April or ...

Love them or hate them, cicadas are fascinating insects talked about in North Carolina during the warmer weather months.Cicadas spend most of their life underground, emerging when soil temperatures ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — They're big, ugly and bug murderers. A cicada-killing wasp, found here in North Carolina, was captured on video preparing its next meal after murdering its prey. Cicadas dominated ...

Sometime within the next month a new brood of cicadas will emerge from the ground in 14 eastern states including South Carolina. But don’t expect it to be anything like last year when many South ...

Every year without fail, cicadas come out of hiding to serenade us with their songs when the North Carolina weather warms up. Cicadas begin their lives as eggs inside of twigs on trees, and they ...

Annual cicadas emerge in NC during July and August, drawn to deciduous trees. Cicadas use loud mating calls reaching 90 decibels, but pose no harm to humans. Cicadas feed on tree roots early in life; ...