As if murder hornets weren’t enough in WTF insect news this year, there’s another freaky one to have on your radar: zombie cicadas. For the study, the researchers gathered hundreds of periodical ...

In 2024, two broods of periodical cicadas will emerge in Illinois and the surrounding states at once: the 13-year Brood XIX and 17-year Brood XIII. A team of researchers at West Virginia University in ...

These loudmouth bugs will soon be brainwashed horndogs. A creepy sexually transmitted fungus is expected to morph millions of cicadas into hyper-horny “zombies” by hijacking their bodies so they’ll ...

A phenomenon is unfolding as billions of cicadas are expected to emerge after spending years underground, with a number of them succumbing to a peculiar infection that transforms them into what ...

Cicadas are succumbing to a parasitic infection that basically turns them into zombies. You read that right. The fungus scientifically known as Massospora has been infecting male cicadas for years, ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — A sexually transmitted disease that is said to turn cicadas into “zombies” and causes their genitals to fall off has been detected in southern parts of Illinois and is spreading ...

A fungal disease could soon bring infected cicadas to your backyard. Massospora cicadina is a fungal pathogen that infects only 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas, like this year's Brood XIV.The ...

A team of researchers at West Virginia University in 2019 discovered that Massospora cicadina, a psychedelic fungus that specifically infects periodical cicadas, “contains chemicals similar to those ...