Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Trillions of periodical cicadas are tunneling out from their underground homes for the first time in 17 years to mate, loudly. Your questions, answered. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the ...

Few days remain before Brood X reemerges. It's one of the largest broods of the 17-year cicadas and are set to make their return to the surface to mate, a phenomenon completed in a matter of weeks. At ...

2024 is the year of the cicada. In the coming months, certain states will experience a rare natural event that hasn't occurred in over 200 years: The emergence of two separate broods of cicadas. This ...

Parts of Tennessee are starting to see the emergence of Brood XIX cicadas, which have been dormant for the past 13 years. The brood wasn't expected to emerge in Tennessee until around mid-May, but ...

A group of periodical cicadas on a shrub. (Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph University) For the first time in 17 years, a certain type of insect has emerged from the depths of the underground. Brood XIV ...

Trillions of cicadas that have been underground since 2004 are about to emerge in 15 states in the U.S., and while the insects known as Brood X won’t cause humans any harm, experts say individuals in ...