The moment you exit your car in front of the Lake Geneva Public Library, the sound is overwhelming. Millions of Brood XIII 17-year cicadas have swarmed the southeastern Wisconsin city, and their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you hear a loud hissing sound during the day? Yes, it sounds eerie, but it's a natural phenomenon. Dog-day cicadas appear throughout Texas during the summer months. According to Cicada Mania, these ...

The sound of summer’s height is the cicada. You always hear the first one. It’s a sound you haven’t thought about for months, but, ah: the whine, the drone, the rattling diminution. There you are!

The "wall of sound" created by this year's cicada invasion may help people with tinnitus. This is according to Fatima Husain, a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — They’ve begun to emerge. And ...

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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 ...

As winter melts away, spring begins to blossom – and buzz with the sound of cicadas. This year, the cohort of cicadas known as "Brood XIV" will emerge from the ground and, much like many other animals ...

Cicada chaos is flourishing and flying, and will be for at least another couple weeks in the Chicago area. Trillions of once-hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the trees and perching upon people's ...