The collective panic led AgriLife to make a Facebook post assuring residents the suspects were not murder hornets, but rather, a common large wasp— the Eastern cicada killer. Despite the false ...

Matt Bertone, Entomologist and Director of the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic at NC State. And this spring is set to have the most emerging periodical cicadas in 200 years! Love or hate them ...

A co-emergence of two cicada broods took place in 2024 in many southern states including North Carolina. This year, another brood of "periodical" cicadas is headed for the Tar Heel State.