cicadas

The 17-year cicadas emerge for about four to six weeks. For the Cincinnati area, this should be the last large emergence for a few years.

The cicadas are coming! And so are some new flavor profiles.

"It's like a graduating class that has a reunion every 17 or 13 years," says Gene Kritsky, professor emeritus of biology at Mount St. Joseph University and author of 'A Tale of Two Broods: The 2024 Emergence of Periodical Cicada Broods XIII and XIX.'

Periodic cicadas aren't expected in massive numbers around Cincinnati until 2025, but a few have shown up anyway.

Couldn't get enough of 2021's cicada emergence? Good news! Latecomer cicada stragglers may arrive in Cincinnati this week.

We received so many questions during the run of our Brood X podcast, that we had to invite Dr. Kritsky back for a live Q&A session with Cory Sharber.…

As our podcast series concludes and our cicada friends begin their new 17-year cycle, Dr. Gene Kritsky from Mount St. Joseph University talks about the…

What are our visitors doing when you don't hear their distinctive mating buzz? If you've noticed they get quiet at night or when it rains, do you know…

In this episode, Dr. Gene Kiritsky and Cory Sharber discuss how did our unseasonable April and May weather impact the Brood X emergence.

Our expert, Dr. Gene Kritsky, has devoted a great deal of his professional life to the study of cicadas. But who studied them before him? How did early…