Whether you love them or hate them, a double brood of cicadas has begun to emerge from the Earth. Residents of the eastern United States have been eagerly awaiting the 2024 periodical cicada emergence ...

Police of Newberry County, South Carolina, received numerous calls from concerned citizens who heard noises compared to “a siren, or a whine, or a roar.” There was no real threat afoot. Residents ...

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 ...

Update: The first cicadas in the Chicago area have emerged! Our latest story can be found here. Our original story can be found below. Much has been said about the historic 2024 cicada emergence - ...

For many Illinois residents, the droning call of cicadas is central to summer's soundscape. But this year looks — and sounds — a bit different, courtesy of a timely collision between cicada Broods ...

Around Australia, the buzz-saw siren of cicadas heralds the beginning of summer. With 237 recorded species of cicada in Australia, almost no area of the country is untouched by their song. Up to 800 ...

During an afternoon stroll around Morton Arboretum, Maria Malayter’s Apple Watch buzzed twice with an unusual notification. The screen warned her of a “loud environment” with sound levels reaching 90 ...

Last week, the Newberry County Sheriff's Office was swarmed by phone calls from local residents who were concerned about a particular sound they were hearing outdoors. "We had several calls about a ...

Much of the D.C. region has listened to the cicadas for weeks now — some have even eaten them. But one local man recorded their sounds to determine the key of their mating call. Before he retired ...