CHICAGO (CBS) -- The periodical cicada broods are coming – and while harmless, they're famously quite noisy and loud. The noise will be hard to miss. But it won't all even be the same noise – as there ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Sammy Ramsey casts the mass emergence of the big, red-eyed bugs as a love story, not an insect apocalypse. By Katrina Miller Spring has sprung, and coming with it is a mass emergence of two broods of ...

While Illinois will experience annual cicadas in 2025, it won't see a repeat of 2024. The two periodical broods that appeared last year in the Prairie State won't emerge this year.