Bobby Zylstra’s morning started a little slow, with cool weather and low clouds hanging over Missouri’s Current River on Friday. After wading a ways downstream, he started seeing a few rises here and ...

The life cycle of the muscular little plane they called the L1 Cicada was tragically short. Nearly a century later, hope lingers that another of these flying marvels could hatch. If luck breaks their ...

While Brood XIX cicadas are starting to slow down in the South, Brood XIII is nearing peak emergence in the Midwest. The Chicago area is seeing massive groups of bugs emerge, and local news stations ...

The historic 2024 co-emergence of two cicada broods is coming to an end. The Great Northern Illinois Brood, a.k.a. Brood XIII, reached peak emergence nearly two weeks ago, and the number of bugs in ...

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Periodical cicadas come out every 13 or 17 years — depending on their brood. As these red-eyed, winged insects pop up across different states, researchers have developed maps to help show when the ...

Brood XIV cicadas will be emerging in Pennsylvania, creating a unique fishing opportunity. Fly tyers are creating imitation cicadas, focusing on the "splat" sound they make when hitting the water.

In the coming weeks, many areas of central Pennsylvania will experience a most interesting natural spectacle — the emergence of the periodical cicada. These large, noisy bugs are sometimes incorrectly ...

Imagine a quiet, uncrowded place where big fish cruise the shoreline slurping insects on the surface, a place where flyrodders can spot their quarry feeding, land a bug big enough to see from 50 feet ...