Recently, swarms of midges have been spotted on cars, homes, light poles, and just about anything near Lake Erie. Even “clouds” of the generally harmless insects have been seen flying across the sky. ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s late summer, and the dog-day cicadas (Tibicen canicularis, identifiable by its large size and black-and-olive-green pattern ...

It began in backyards across Ohio, Maryland and Virginia before anyone saw it coming. A low hum grew louder as the day warmed, swelling into a chorus that seemed to emanate from every tree at once.

FLY-FISHERS in the eastern half of the U.S. are eagerly anticipating a hatch 17 years in the making: the Brood X cicada emergence. From around mid-May through June, billions of these chubby bugs will ...

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 ...