What stands out during a cicada invasion is the sound. It's a constant, eerie, amazingly loud song that gets in a person's ears and won't let much else in. And it's coming from the tiniest bugs. The song comes only from males, and it's a mating call. The way they do it is a lot like how a drum works.
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 invasion blanketing the central United States is the sound. The songs — only from males — are mating calls. Two adult periodical cicadas mate at Lincoln Memorial Garden and Nature Center on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, in Springfield, Ill.
“And every time it goes up in a wave and comes back down, you’ll see in the treetops a bunch of them start flying out, so they’ll make a call and then jump to a new branch and make the call again. So it’s actually like different groups that are coming in waves.”Cicadas are so noisy in a South Carolina county that residents are calling the police
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