Listen to the eerie sound of this single cicada captured in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. I toured the White House to see Melania Trump's Christmas decorations. The East Wing is no more, but the display was ...

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — The most noticeable part of the cicada invasion blanketing the central United States is the sound — an eerie, amazingly loud song that gets in a person's ears and won't let much ...

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 ...

The reverberating clicking noise that cicadas make is one of the most distinct sounds of all insects, but how exactly do they make it? Cicadas have existed in North America for millions of years, with ...

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!

As some of the loudest singing insects on Earth are back to chirp at a volume similar to an airplane’s, Americans are rejoicing or covering their ears. Listen to some of the species. By Aimee Ortiz It ...

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 ...

HUNTINGTON — With the warmer weather and clearer skies that come every summer also come cicadas, insects that emerge from underground every year in the final stage of their life cycle to mate and ...

A cicada lounges Thursday on a tree limb at F.W. Kent Park west of Tiffin in Johnson County. This year marks the simultaneous emergence of Broods 13 and 19, which hasn’t happened since the 1800s. The ...

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 ...

Water droplets cling to the wings of an adult periodical cicada at Lincoln Memorial Garden and Nature Center on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, in Springfield, Ill. The most noticeable part of the cicada ...

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, ...