EditorialJohn Bisognano, the new president of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and Marina Jenkins, who has served as the committee’s litigation director and will succeed Bisognano as executive director, in Washington, March 9, 2023. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
EditorialJohn Bisognano, the new president of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and Marina Jenkins, who has served as the committee’s litigation director and will succeed Bisognano as executive director, in Washington, March 9, 2023. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Joe Biden left for Europe aboard Air Foce One on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, but the press plane that accompanied him ran into delays caused by cicadas that had filled the plane’s engines (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times)
EditorialBun Lai, the chef of Miya’s Sushi, searches for large groups of cicadas, which can be unpredictable, in woods near the restaurant in New Haven, Conn. on May 18, 2021. (Emon Hassan/The New York Times)
EditorialAny day now, billions of cicadas, part of a cohort called Brood X, will emerge from underground tunnels to sing, mate and die across the eastern United States. (Eleanor Lutz/The New York Times)
EditorialOwl-Shaped Wine Vessel?(Zun), 13th11th century B.C., Bronze, 8 1/8 ? 3 7/8 in. (20.7 ? 9.8 cm), This zun, or wine vessel, is cast in the shape of an owl whose head forms a removable lid. A scaled snake with a tigers head forms the pinion of each wing. ...
EditorialCicada 1, Cicadas, p. 128, 1634, Thomas Moffet, Edward Wotton, Konrad Gessner, Thomas Penny: Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum: olim ab Edoardo Wottono. Conrado Gesnero. Thomaque Pennio inchoatum: tandem Tho. Moufeti Londinatis opera sumptib...
EditorialCicada 2, Cicadas, p. 130, 1634, Thomas Moffet, Edward Wotton, Konrad Gessner, Thomas Penny: Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum: olim ab Edoardo Wottono. Conrado Gesnero. Thomaque Pennio inchoatum: tandem Tho. Moufeti Londinatis opera sumptib...
EditorialTosena, Print, Tosena is a genus of cicadas from South-East Asia. They are the type genus of tribe Tosenini. Species formerly included in Tosena are Distantalna splendida, Formotosena montivaga, Formotosena seebohmi and Trengganua sibylla.
EditorialZammara, Print, Zammara is a genus of cicadas. These species are large cicadas that are generally bright blue-green in color. Like other cicadas, these can produce loud calls; Zammara tympanum, for example, makes a "winding up-like pulsating buzz." Zam...
EditorialCicada, Print, The cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into ...
EditorialCicada, Print, The cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into ...
EditorialGaeana, Print, Gaeana is a genus of cicadas, most members of which have colourful marking on their forewings, found across tropical and temperate Asia. Their bright wing patterns have been hypothesized as being a case of Batesian mimicry where the toxi...