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Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar. The Newberry County Sheriff’s Office sent out a Facebook message Tuesday letting people know that the whining sound is just the male cicadas singing to attract mates after more than a decade of being dormant.

Leptoglossus phyllopus or Eastern leaf-footed bug is a species of leaf-footed bugs in the same genus as the western conifer seed bug (L. occidentalis. The Eastern leaf-footed bug is found throughout the southern United States, from Florida to California, through Mexico, and as far south as Costa Rica.

Leptoglossus phyllopus or Eastern leaf-footed bug is a species of leaf-footed bugs in the same genus as the western conifer seed bug (L. occidentalis. The Eastern leaf-footed bug is found throughout the southern United States, from Florida to California, through Mexico, and as far south as Costa Rica.

A characteristic structure on the wheel bug is the wheel-shaped pronotal armor.

A characteristic structure on the wheel bug is the wheel-shaped pronotal armor.

Megacopta cribraria, also called the bean plataspid, kudzu bug, kudzu beetle, globular stink bug and lablab bug, is a shield bug native to India and…

A listener finds a Wheel Bug "recycling" a Water Strider.

Wheel Bug eggs are barrel shaped and clustered in masses.

A listener reports finding two green cockroaches. What...?!

The Dobsonfly, the males in particular, can look pretty intimating at up to five inches from pincers to wing tips.