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!

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 ...

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 ...

Cicadas have returned and are making their presence known, but is all of their racket a problem for human hearing? The Vanderbilt University Department of Hearing and Speech tells WTVF the sound of ...

HANOVER COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — There is a familiar drone in the air in some parts of Virginia as cicadas emerge from the ground, but this year there is some extra buzz as more than just the annual.

Cicadas are the song of the summer, especially around St. Louis, but this year’s large broods may be especially irritating for people on the autism spectrum who have hearing sensitivity. ST. LOUIS — ...

ST. LOUIS — Shhhooo. Wee-uuu. Chick, chick, chick. That’s the sound of three different cicada species. For some people, those sounds are the song of the summer. Others wish the insects would turn it ...

Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs RIVERWOODS, Ill. — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, ...

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