Vahed's organization is part of a project that’s been searching, so far in vain, for any surviving Cicadetta montana cicadas in the New Forest National Park. No confirmed sightings have been ...

At the bug lab in Bozeman, they call the 2-inch long critter the "the big green one," the largest of Montana's cicada species. Tibicen dealbatus (Davis), a bug that looks like it flew off a horror ...

The earliest definitive fossil of a singing cicada was discovered in Montana and dates from 59 million to 56 million years ago, said lead study author Dr. Hui Jiang, a paleontologist and ...

Two ecologists explain why a misleading map is worse than no map at all, and how they have worked for years to track the ...

Another cicada invasion is here. The large Brood XIV, which emerges every 17 years, is making for a spectacular natural event as billions of periodical cicadas emerge across parts of the Eastern U.S., ...

The eastern U.S. is about to be inundated with trillions of Brood XIV periodical cicadas—which were first documented by the pilgrims in 1634. Periodical cicadas have red eyes and emerge from the ...