CINCINNATI, Ohio — When the Brood X cicadas emerge in parts of the U.S. later this month, they’ll be big and they’ll be loud. “It's crickets-on-steroids kind of thing,” said Dr. Ian Windmill, senior ...

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!

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

WHEATON, Ill. — 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 else ...

They’re going loco for locusts. A South Carolina sheriff’s department has been swarmed with 911 calls about incessant siren sounds — only to find out that the concerned citizens are complaining about ...