Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as jet engines, the periodical cicadas are nature’s kings of the calendar. These black bugs with bulging eyes ...

They overwinter as larvae in the soil, and the adults emerge in mid-June to early July. This emergence usually corresponds to the emergence of the dog-day cicada, our annual cicada that you hear ...

Gun Barrel City is the biggest town on Cedar Creek Lake and can be home for over dramatic youth who love to show how much of a hot mess they can be. Whitehouse is basically a suburb of Tyler with some ...

Cicadas — big-eyed, winged insects that are typically around two inches long and are members of the same biological order as stink and bed bugs — may look ferocious but are harmless.

Copperheads eat a variety of prey, including small mammals, birds, amphibians, and insects. Large numbers ... that copperheads were likely seeking cicada larvae coming out of the soil between ...