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Cicada double brood event: What to expect as trillions of bugs emerge in Eastern US
When and where will the double cicada brood emerge? Here's what to expect from this rare phenomenon, which occurs only once every 221 years.
Mutant blue-eyed cicadas discovered outside Chicago during rare double brood event
Most of the periodical cicadas emerging across the eastern U.S. in this year's rare dual emergence event have blood-red eyes, but sightings of blue-eyed variants have recently been reported.
Double cicada bloom 2024: Google Doodle celebrates once-in-221-year event with band of bugs
The "cicada-geddon" is the result of the co-emergence of Brood XIII and Brood XIX, with billions of bugs crawling out of the ground across parts of Eastern U.S.
Brazilian wandering spiders: Bites & other facts
Brazilian wandering spiders don't build webs but crawl on the forest floor at night in search of prey, which they kill with neurotoxic venom.
Canadian 'super pigs' are likely to invade northern US, study warns
There is "high potential" for hogs that have gone feral in Canada to cross into South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota, where the pigs could inflict billions of dollars in damage.
How do fireflies light up?
Fireflies use a glowing chemical reaction to signal to one another in the dark of dusk and night.
Aardwolf: The weirdo hyena cousin that eats 300,000 termites each night
Aardwolves — the "weird cousin" of the hyena world that has peg teeth and only eats insects — are an evolutionary mystery, stemming from a ghost lineage that scientists haven't been able to figure out.
Crows can count out loud, startling study reveals
This is the first time an animal other than humans has been seen performing the feat of vocal numeracy.
