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The Newberry County Sheriff's Department in South Carolina is fielding calls over a mysterious siren noise, which is the sound of emerging cicadas.

There might be a very few cicadas in a few Central Virginia counties, but not many.

Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking about strange noises.

Scientists are making computer models to better understand how the mysterious insects emerge collectively after more than a decade underground.

Newberry County Sheriff’s Office takes to social media to explain loud noises

Cicadas are noisy and the sheer numbers and the noise they generate can reach 107 decibels. That’s about the same intensity as a lawn mower.

The sounds of summer are coming ... in the form of cicadas.

Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking about strange noises.

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. Now it appears to have started, as the internet is seeing the first cicada videos of the season from northern South Carolina. The Cicada season has started in South Carolina. pic.twitter.com/KBRekRQnnL— AccuWeather (@accuweather) Apri...

Two massive broods of cicadas are emerging around the same time this spring.