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For the first time in over 200 years, certain parts of the country are experiencing a rare emergence of two periodical cicadas those big, droning insects that mostly live underground until they finally, very audibly, do not.
“It’s very possible for somebody to mistake it for a fire alarm or a house alarm going off,” Jammie Murphy, with the University of Georgia extension, says about the noise generated by the insects.