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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mary Coen rubbed her temple and sighed. The chorus of cicadas throbbed in the oak trees, brain-piercingly loud. “I was hoping they were on the wane, but good God,” she said as she walked to her car ...

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 ...

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 — ...