CYNTHIANA — Eight inches below ground, a buggy bomb ticks away. Millions of periodical cicadas bide their time, feasting on tree roots and counting the years. They don’t wear watches or keep calendars ...

They have been around for weeks, eerily and loudly calling out, making a mess and peeing on everything. Millions if not billions of 17-year cicadas have emerged in Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio. So, ...

A cicada molts its shell in this file photo. Billions of them are set to emerge this summer with Kentucky at the epicenter. Misty Zban/provided Cicada Brood XIV, also known as the “Bourbon Brood” for ...

This summer, some will get a chance to witness a phenomenon rarer — and probably louder — than Halley’s comet. For the first time in more than two centuries, two big groups of cicadas in the United ...

An adult cicada with large red eyes perches at the top of a daylily in Menifee County. George Campbell George Campbell Cicadas are on the move in central Kentucky and beyond as they emerge across the ...

Hannah Harmon, 10, a student at Academy Christian School in Rock Hill, was on a field trip earlier this week to Kings Mountain when a cicada joined the group. Wendy Lipe /provided Say what you will ...