NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The sounds of cicadas have become inescapable in many parts of Tennessee. "They are loud!" said Max Perry, a Vanderbilt student. "When you're walking around Nashville, you ...

My neighbors have banded together in response to the controversial chirping of the cicadas, which has transformed the soundscape of our region. An online discussion started this month by “W.S.” on our ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The periodical cicada broods are coming – and while harmless, they're famously quite noisy and loud. The noise will be hard to miss. But it won't all even be the same noise – as there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This summer, Brood XIX cicadas will emerge across Middle Tennessee. While the cicadas are totally harmless, the noise they make ...

Over the past few weeks, Brood XIII 17-year cicadas have emerged in parts of southern Wisconsin and the Midwest for the first time since 2007. Along with the crunchy carcasses they leave behind, ...

You're on vacation, lying in the shade of a pine tree, and a familiar sound fills the air: chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp... That constant, piercing, sometimes hypnotic noise is the sound of cicadas. But how ...

What's that sound? It may sound like a very loud buzzing or droning that lasts all day and into the night. But before you call the police to report what you think could be a siren, whine or roar, ...

The incessant buzzing hits you like a zapper the second you're outside. A wall of noise, like thousands of tiny wind-up toys stuck in the trees. That noise is made by cicadas, and they are here to ...

Pictured is a cicada that recently emerged in Oktibbeha County as part of a 13-year periodical brood. The rare emergence not only brought more insects out of the ground, but also additional noise as ...

As more than a trillion cicadas emerge from underground this month, experts warn that people on the autism spectrum or who are sensitive to sound may find the insects’ noise overwhelming. The large co ...

Two separate cicada broods emerged in mid-May – a simultaneous event that hasn’t occurred in 221 years and won’t happen again until 2245. Seventeen states are seeing “trillions” of Brood XIII and ...