Cicadas and locusts may both swarm and buzz, but they’re very different insects. Here's how to tell them apart.

Cicadas and locusts may both swarm and buzz, but they’re very different insects. Here's how to tell them apart.

While people in some areas call cicadas locusts, they are not locusts. Cicadas are true bugs, in the order Hemiptera, per the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

A. No, true locusts belong to the same family of insects as grasshoppers. They not only look like grasshoppers, but they also damage plants as do grasshoppers, whereas cicadas mainly fly around ...

Cicadas, red-eyed bugs singing loud sci-fi sounding songs, can seem downright creepy. Especially since the trillions of them coming this year emerge from underground only every 17 years. But they ...

While cicadas might be colloquially called locusts in some parts, they're actually completely different species. Locusts are a type of grasshopper, while cicadas are a distinct insect type.

Cicadas are part of the order Hemiptera, or true bugs, and are more closely related to aphids and leafhoppers. Unlike locusts, periodical cicadas do not feed on crops, and they do not migrate.

Colonists in the U.S. saw swarms of cicadas and thought to the locust plagues in the Bible. There are locusts but they are several species of grasshoppers, not cicadas.

Unlike greenish, annual cicadas, periodical cicadas are known for their black bodies, clear wings and bold red eyes. They breathe through 10 pairs of spiracles, two of which are on the thorax ...

Cicadas aren't monsters or a plague of locusts. And once you get to know them, scientists say you can appreciate the wonder of these unusual creatures.

Cicadas, red-eyed bugs singing loud sci-fi sounding songs, can seem downright creepy. Especially since the trillions of them coming this year emerge from underground only every 17 years.