Isabel Wherry tells PEOPLE her daughter named the cicada, Cicady Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

(NEXSTAR) – 2024 brought us “cicada-geddon,” a double awakening of two broods of periodical cicadas that swarmed much of the eastern United States over the spring and summer. The noisy ...

This past summer, Isabel Wherry's daughter, Aspen, noticed a dead cicada in their front yard in Illinois. She named it Cicady, and now, months later, she hasn’t let it leave her sight.

SCIENTISTS ARE ASKING FOR HELP DOCUMENTING THE BUGS THROUGH THE FREE APP CICADA SAFARI. YOU GO OUT WITH THE APP ON YOUR PHONE, TURN YOUR GPS ON AND WHAT HAVE YOU, AND YOU FIND CICADAS. YOU ...