Offers information about festivities celebrating the 2004 Brood X emergence.

Article discusses reports of travel plans, as well as the current status of the brood emergence.

Photographs from the 2003 emergence in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, United States. Includes birth, adults and shells.

Offers an article about the 1996 emergence in the Appalachian forests of the United States. Includes an illustration of the life cycle.

Discusses studies of mating behavior and communication, patterns of reproductive character displacement, interspecific hybridization, signal evolution and species interactions. Includes references.

Detailed information and photographs of Magicicada species. Includes U.S. range maps and emergence schedule for each of the broods of 13-year and 17-year cicadas.

Presents a review of research relating to speciation and secondary contact in periodical cicadas as well as data on the species-specificity of genetic, behavioural and morphological characters in the zone of contact between two sister species.

Article discusses why an irregular emergence may foil this insects' predators. Includes references.

Article recounts tales of the 1987 emergence. From WTOP Radio Network.

Discusses brood distribution and emergence years in Ohio, United States. Includes maps and photographs.