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Cicadas are so loud that South Carolina residents are calling police
Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff's office asking why they can hear a "noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar." The Newberry County Sheriff's Office posted a message on Facebook on Tuesday letting people know that the whining sound is just the male cicadas singing to attract mates after more than a decade of being dormant.Some people have even flagged down deputies to ask what the noise is all about, Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said.The noisiest cicadas were moving around the county...
Loud cicadas cause of swarm of 911 calls about mysterious ‘siren’ noise in South Carolina: ‘Sounds of nature’
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 cicadas. Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster put the community’s anxiety to rest Tuesday, saying the “noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar” is nothing more than the bugs emerging from more than a decade of slumber. Would you try a cicada salad? The pervasive pest lands it way on New Orleans menu “Although to some, the noise is annoying, they pose no danger to...
911 call frenzy as cicadas invade towns in multiple states
The much-anticipated "cicadapocalypse" has begun, with South Carolina residents filing noise complaints on the insects. Whether you love them or hate them, a double brood of cicadas has begun to emerge from the Earth. Residents of the eastern United States have been eagerly awaiting the 2024 periodical cicada emergence, featuring a co-emergence of a 13-year and 17-year brood.
South Carolina residents confuse cicadas' mating calls for warning sirens
NEWBERRY COUNTY, SC (WACH) -- Calls of cicadas are filling the air in parts of South Carolina especially in like counties Newberry and Saluda. The Newberry County Sheriff’s Office said people that have been calling the office about sirens or roars that it's just the sound of nature. “It...
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