The cicadas are coming. Are your trees and shrubs ready for the invasion? The emerging Brood XII and Brood XIX cicadas love to target deciduous trees, or those that with leaves that change colors and ...

After last year’s “cicada-geddon,” where two periodical cicada broods emerged at the same time to wreak noisy havoc on East Coast-homeowners’ yards, things are quieting down this year—a bit. A single ...

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They’re coming. The Great Southern Brood of cicadas will emerge from the ground after 13 years this spring, latching onto your trees and howling like lawnmowers in search of a mate or two. They will ...

Very soon now, billions of cicadas will be singing in the trees and flying around yards, parks and forest preserves in the Chicago region. “We’ve already seen a few of the 17-year periodical cicadas ...

Despite their loud, aggressive-sounding buzzing and red-eyed, rather frightful appearance, the periodical cicadas due to emerge en masse this spring in Illinois do not pose a threat to humans, pets or ...

There's another periodical emergence on the way. After last year’s “cicada-geddon,” where two periodical cicada broods emerged at the same time to wreak noisy havoc on East Coast-homeowners’ yards, ...