Cicada invasion begins as Brood XIV swarms parts of U.S. See photos.

It is a one-in-17-year event for Brood XIV, which digs its way up from the soil as it warms and descends on neighborhoods in the billions.

• May 30, 2025

Cicada maps show where the insects will emerge in the U.S. this spring

A large brood of periodical cicadas is due to emerge in the spring of 2025. These maps show where people should expect to see and hear the bugs this year.

• Apr 28, 2025

A massive brood of cicadas will soon emerge. Here's what to know.

A notably large brood of periodical cicadas will emerge from the underground across parts of the eastern U.S. this spring.

• Apr 28, 2025

When will cicadas come back in 2025?

Brood XIV, the second-largest group of periodical cicadas, known for their noisy mass emergence from the ground, will arrive this spring.

• Jan 13, 2025

Cicadas come with an itchy pest — tiny mites that can cause rashes

Hundreds of thousands of the tiny wind-soaring and itch-inducing critters can fall from trees every day and are packed with a venom that can paralyze prey 166,000 times their size.

• Aug 15, 2024

East Coast braces for invasive flying spiders

The cicadas have already taken over parts of the U.S., and they may soon have some eight-legged company. Giant flying "Joro" spiders are expected to swing into the East Coast later this summer. David Coyle, assistant professor of forest health and invasive species at Clemson University, joins CBS News to explain what to know about the arachnids.

• Jun 7, 2024
• 4:21

If your pet eats too many cicadas, when should you see the vet?

Veterinarians emphasize it's rare for a cicada-eating issue to turn into an emergency for pets.​ But with vets seeing such issues across the Chicago area nonetheless, experts have some advice.

• Jun 7, 2024

Cicadas are back, but climate change is messing with them

Periodical cicadas used to reliably emerge every 13 or 17 years — but spring arriving sooner interferes with the bugs' internal alarm clocks.

• Jun 3, 2024

Climate change could impact cicadas

As billions of cicadas emerge from the ground across 16 states in the Southeast and Midwest, scientists are noticing a possible impact from climate change. Since the periodical cicadas that crawl out of the ground are triggered by soil temperature, and since temperatures are rising more quickly in the spring and early summer, the insects, once known for being notoriously predictable, are emerging more than two weeks earlier than usual.

• Jun 3, 2024
• 3:12

How the cicada invasion is bringing people together

Complete strangers are bonding over the rare, ongoing emergence of two groups of periodical cicadas.

• May 22, 2024

The deeper meaning of the cicada phenomenon

For the first time since 1803, two broods of cicadas are emerging simultaneously in several parts of the U.S. in an extraordinary show of nature. But biologists say there may be a deeper meaning to the insect invasion. Ben Tracy explains.

• May 22, 2024
• 3:25

Cicadas pee from trees. And they can urinate a lot, a new study finds.

Scientists who study such things have found that cicadas urinate in a jet stream because they consume an incredible volume of fluid during their brief time above ground.

• May 15, 2024

Can you eat cicadas? Yes – and here are 3 recipes to try.

You deserve a treat. And this spring, Mother Nature is providing a seemingly endless supply – trillions of cicadas.

• May 8, 2024

Trillions of cicadas emerge across U.S.

Trillions of cicadas are emerging across 12 states, from the Midwest to the East Coast, after spending more than a decade underground. In Central Illinois, there is a rare opportunity to see two types of cicadas together for the first time in more than 200 years.

• May 2, 2024
• 3:43

Videos show where cicadas have already emerged in the U.S.

The bugs emit a loud, droning buzzing sound when they emerge — signaling they are ready to mate.

• May 2, 2024

Historic cicada event underway in parts of U.S.

For the first time since 1803, two groups of periodical cicadas are emerging from the ground at the same time in parts of the Midwest and South. However, a small section of Central Illinois marks the only place where both the 13-year and 17-year cicadas are emerging in the same place. Dave Malkoff reports on the extraordinary event.

• May 2, 2024
• 2:09

Maps show where trillions of cicadas will emerge in the U.S. this spring

Trillions of periodical cicadas are emerging from the ground this spring, bringing with them their loud buzzing and molted exoskeletons. Here's where you will be able to see them.

• Apr 29, 2024

Cicadas arrive in Georgia and South Carolina

It might not be summer yet, but the sounds of the season have already arrived. CBS News national correspondent Dave Malkoff traveled to the Georgia-South Carolina border, where one of two broods of periodical cicadas expected to arise this year in a historic emergence convergence is already molting and traveling to the treetops to mate.

• Apr 26, 2024
• 1:32

It has begun: Trillions of cicadas emerge

Trillions of cicadas are emerging in some parts of the country after laying dormant for more than a decade. In Illinois, two broods will co-emerge for the first time in over 200 years. The collective noise from the insects can be as loud as a jet engine. Jonathan L. Larson, extension entomologist for the University of Kentucky, joined CBS News to discuss the emergence.

• Apr 26, 2024
• 3:46

Cicadas are so loud that South Carolina residents are calling police

"Although to some, the noise is annoying, they pose no danger to humans or pets," the sheriff wrote. "Unfortunately, it is the sounds of nature."

• Apr 25, 2024

Cicada noise in S.C. prompts calls to sheriff

Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff's office asking why they can hear a "noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar." CBS News' John Dickerson has details.

• Apr 25, 2024
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