Southern India's cicadas orchestrate a stunning dawn chorus, beginning precisely at civil twilight. Thousands of these ...

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; ...

Cicadas coordinate their early morning choruses with remarkable precision, timing their singing to a specific level of light during the pre-dawn hours. In a study published in the journal Physical ...