Get ready for an insect phenomenon that has been 17 years in the making. Starting this spring, when temperatures are warm ...
Once the nymphs find somewhere to stop on their climbs, they molt and the adult cicada will emerge, Cooley said. The males ...
Brood XIV, the second-largest periodical cicada brood, last emerged in 2008, Tamra Reall, an entomologist at the University ...
Once the nymphs find somewhere to stop on their climbs, they molt and the adult cicada will emerge, Cooley said. The males will begin to sing to garner the females' attention, Reall said.
"During the final molt of their exoskeleton, immature cicadas (i.e., nymphs) construct a tunnel through which they emerge from the ground. They will then molt into adults, leaving the nymphal ...