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 ...

Cicadas are the song of the summer, especially around St. Louis, but this year’s large broods may be especially irritating for people on the autism spectrum who have hearing sensitivity. ST. LOUIS — ...

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 ...

HUNTINGTON — With the warmer weather and clearer skies that come every summer also come cicadas, insects that emerge from underground every year in the final stage of their life cycle to mate and ...

ST. LOUIS — Shhhooo. Wee-uuu. Chick, chick, chick. That's the sound of three different cicada species. For some people, those sounds are the song of the summer. Others wish the insects would turn it ...

As cicada season begins, many are wondering just how loud these buzzing insects can get. During large emergences, you might hear them before you even see them.Gene Kritsky, a leading expert on cicadas ...

Marvin Lo, Morton Arboretum tree root scientist, collects fallen periodical cicada specimens at the base of a tree on Thursday, June 6, 2024, at Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Ill. Trillions of once ...

When walking around campus, one will probably notice it sounds like Tucson is sizzling. That sizzling sound is the song of a cicada insect. “”There is an Australian one I think that maybe breaks glass ...

Prepare for the loudest summer in 17 years with the arrival of Brood XIV cicadas.

One of my college professors used to say, “Nature is always screaming at us. Unfortunately, it screams in a language that we don’t understand very well.” While we like to think of the outdoors as ...

RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, ...