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Swarms

A cicada from Brood X, the largest of more than a dozen broods in the region, in Princeton, New Jersey, in 2004.

The 17-Year Cicada Swarms of Brood X Are Coming This Summer

Across the eastern United States, a marvel of nature in the form of billions of loud, flying, mating insects.

Atlas Obscura February 4, 2021

A swarm of locusts in Samburu county, approximately 186 miles north of Nairobi, Kenya, on January 22.

How Climate Change Helped Spawn an East African Locust Crisis

Pictures from the ground show an insect storm of biblical proportions.

Zoya Teirstein January 30, 2020

The ones on radar weren't packed quite so tightly, but there were a lot more of them.

A Ladybug Swarm Over California Was Huge Enough to Show Up on Radar

Jessica Leigh Hester June 7, 2019

Gallinippers make for pesky neighbors.

Billions of Mosquitoes Are Having a Post-Hurricane Field Day in North Carolina

One resident compared the swarms to snow flurries.

Jessica Leigh Hester October 1, 2018

Mayfly 'Tornadoes' Briefly Took Over Saskatchewan

They reproduced and then died.

Erik Shilling July 24, 2017

Celebrate Swarm Season with Photos of Mayflies Swarming a Medieval Bridge

Springtime for insects!

Jessie Guy-Ryan April 3, 2016