R OCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Cicadas may mistake the sound of your lawn equipment for a mating call, which could attract swarms of insects this Spring as billions are set to be unleashed in a rare ...

The insects spend the vast majority of their ... Others describe the cicadas' sound as "eerie" or "annoying." Klett also said parents have told her that some children with autism or other sensory ...

The sounds vary widely, and some species are more musical than others. Though cicada noises may sound alike to humans, the insects use different calls to express alarm or attract mates.

Cicadas are a common summer-time insect, but most people haven’t seen one. However just about everyone has heard the loud buzzing sound that cicadas make coming from the tops of trees starting ...

If you hear insects singing in the daytime ... in the hollow chamber and that creates the sound. The sound, or song, differs among species and serves as a mating call. "Some people can identify the ...

He says that the insect is “distinctly American ... Among the peculiarities of this Cicada are the periodicity of its broods, some appearing at intervals of seventeen years (whence its name ...

There are more than 2,000 species of this insect worldwide, according to Mass Audubon ... according to Mass Wildlife. The cicadas make such sounds with organs in their bodies called tympana.

If you hear insects singing ... that creates the sound. The sound, or song, differs among species and serves as a mating call. "Some people can identify the cicadas to species just by listening ...