Billions of cicadas emerging in North Carolina to create rare noise 

Scientist at N.C. State says the event "hasn’t happened since Thomas Jefferson was president." www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/billions-of-cicadas-emerging-in-north-carolina-to-create-rare-noise-this-spring/

I think the cicadas work schedule is about the same as the average politician.

can you imagine sleeping for 17 years just to scream for 4 weeks then die ? what a life

I remember growing up this was the sound of Summer during the day and the sound of crickets at night.

For those asking why the report says that the sound hasn't been heard in centuries, you have a brood that emerges every 13 years, and another that emerges every 17 years. So to have them BOTH emerge at the same time and create a combined sound, the number of years passed after the previous such occurrence needs to be a multiple of both 13 and 17, i.e 221. So basically, this phenomenon last happened roughly 221 years ago.

In Texas we had the 17 year Cicada thing a couple of years ago. They can be deafening but I've always liked the sound they make.

Such a beautiful world we live in. Enjoy it to the fullest extent while you’re here.

Their sound is beautiful. It’s the music of summer days. It would be sad if summer was silent and dead. They are an important part of the ecosystem too. The birds will have a feast this summer.

I love the sound of cicadas when I'm sleeping. I'm in Georgia and waiting for them to come 😊.

In El Salvador we call them chicharras, they are so friendly too

We are in NC. I'll never forget the day that my cat came in from the balcony with one in her mouth. When she "showed" it to me, it flew into the glass shade of a chandelier light where rattled around. She started climbing and leaping off of the entertainment center to recapture it. What a circus! I think they look like big beetles with frog faces. They're much more interesting outside than in, in my opinion.

Long warm summer nights falling asleep to cicadas songs carried thru a screen door on the breeze. Heaven.

Some of these people are probably going to react in a My Cousin Vinny fashion when they hear these. " *What the f--- is THAT?!?* "

They are the sound of heat as crickets are the sound of night.

Backin the 80's was the largest emergence I have ever witnessed up here in NJ. The sound was amazing!! All together the combined calls sound like a giant flying saucer or something. It was an absolute swarm.

In upstate NY, you hear the cicadas around 6 weeks before it starts to get cooler

My parents rescued a wild starling that fell out of a nest and was abandoned. She lived 15 yrs. Her favorite foods were locusts and cicadas. The wild bird population will be thrilled to see these cicadas! 😁

This is my all time FAVORITE sound.

WE will not see this again. period

Sounds of the sourh.. growing up in the deep south of carolina as a kid back in the sixties, these were music to the soul and the "lightning bugs" completed the package :)

When I'd lived across the street from a park, the song of the 17 year cicadas was intense. In fact, they collectively sounded like a Star Trek phaser set on overload. At night, cicadas can scream at your windows, too. My advice is to turn off your lights so that they won't attract them.

As a kid in Okinawa I absolutely loved when cicadas were around. But these cicadas were HUGE and the noise was defeaning

When I was in elementary school in 1968? Locust came out eating plants and trees but mainly getting into people hair .

They aren’t just saying they are making a sound everyone has heard, they are talking about billions

I got to be at a state park for a week during this as a child. The sound they make brings good memories.

This is NOTHING TO BE EXCITED OVER. A very disturbing REVELATION 😳

Every 13 and 17 years, both prime numbers 🧐

I would hear this noise every single summer night in the south

That noise would drive me NUTS!

They are not completely harmless. They are terrifying 😂

I grew up in Kansas decades ago and these large and interesting insects were an everyday part of our Summers. We called them locusts, and they would leave their shells all over the trees. 😊

That'd drive me crazy tbh.

Me and my brother was out varmint hunting and drove through a swarm of them in Oregon never forget it

Cicadas are cool.

They’re coming out in huge numbers here in Nashville. We had thousands come out on our property alone.

Ive been so excited for this! I love the sounds they make

I love those sounds

Happy day for chickens! They love a cicada bloom!

I was terrified when this happened in the 90s around where my cousins lived in NJ. I've been scarred ever since.

This reminds me of my childhood in Chicago I remember them and the noise ♥️

OMG! I LOVE the sound of the cicadas. I'm from Michigan and that sound ALWAYS makes me think of the south. That and those darn kudzu. 😂 Every movie with those _southern shot scenes_ will have the cicada sound...that's the SOUTH!❤

Wow, that sure took my mind off the invasion at the southern and northern borders. Maybe you can do a special on cupcakes when America has finally fallen. Thanks.

I love nature. I believe politicians could also benefit the soil.😂

I just love cicadas. Hopefully I get to get to one of these areas before the cicadas are gone. 🥰

I'm jealous, I would love to go visit to see/hear them.

There sound puts me in a deep sleep .Very relaxing.

We've always had cicadas, but the first time I got to experience a mass emergence was really spectacular! The whole process is something to see and hear!

Your windshields will be a mess and washer/wipers are almost completely useless. Have fun!

I used to love the sound of circadas when I lived in Iowa.

i remember 10 years ago someone posted a video of it. theyre everywhere and people covered their ear since it was so loud. they said they cant get away from the sound.

They are awesome! We had them three years ago!

Its annoying that cicadas know math and emerge at prime years.

The problem is is cicadas are having a lot of issues in certain parts of the world because of the fact that we place asphalt down over locations where they mate and lay their eggs. So when it's time for them to emerge they can't. And that's just a very sad thing to happen That was a situation that was occurring in Pennsylvania and in New England

Love their songs ❤❤❤

In the late 80s early 90s I was at the beach in NYC and there was a whoooing humming sound. Supposedly it was locust that come out every 20 years but never heard it since. A lot of weird stuff is happening lately with bugs worldwide it’s actually scary.

If you’re ever in Palm Springs during the summer, you’ll hear the cicadas buzzing everywhere.

This happens every summer in NC...

They are beautiful precious babies they don’t hurt no one 💚🙏

It’s nature folks RELAX!!!

these things are amazing when chocolate covered!

calling cicadas harmless is wild.

I LOVE cicadas! Wish I was back in N. Carolina (spent 4 years at Camp Lejeune.)

This is a staple sound of my child hood

They were a food source for native Americans too.

They are cute

I remember they came out here in Oklahoma a few years ago when I first got here. The noise was almost deafening!

Two generations will hatch in ohio duting the eclipse ......

I love finding others that enjoy this sound.

They are just giant flies in armor. 😂😂😂😂

GOD IS coming get right with JESUS CHRIST

Sounds like a plague.

How is this rare? I've heard about this nearly every year for the past 6 years. I still have dead cicadas in a display case that I found outside from the past few years

Where I live in Southern CA we don't experience them. 😢 But when I lived in Northern NJ, every year their 'singing' let you know summer was here__I really miss that! We had the yearly cicada, which the first time I ever saw one was on my front porch step__it was dusk and I couldn't make out what it was. I got my 'flashlight glasses' to see it better and, OMG__I thought it was some kind of 'alien' creature! The traditional shape, with a white underside, pretty green on its back, and the classic spookie red eyes set far apart! My kids used to find the cicadas' outgrown exoskeleton stuck to the trunk of the sugar maple in our front yard. Those were fun days, for sure! 🌱🌿🌻🐝🌳💖🙌😺

If you see one crawling out of the ground, grab yourself a beer and a chair and let it crawl to the top of one of your fingers. It will grip on to your finger and within minutes will split its back shell open and start emerging as a cicada. Within 45 minutes it will have crawled out and gripped onto its old husk and the wings will unfurl and start drying out. At this time you can put it next to a tree and the fresh new cicada will climb on to the tree and continue to harden its wings. This was fun to do when my kids were little. It is an incredible show and sure beats social media.

They've been saying "this is the big year" since 2017. It's a scare tactic. Please reference this post if they ever DO come out. Then I'll take the criticism.

I grew up with this noise. I fucking love it.

They sing beautiful songs.

When I grew up I heard this every day loved the sound it reminds me of my youth I used to look forward to this every night

Those of us that hear this EVERY YEAR aren’t quite so thrilled.

I'm wondering what our role is on the planet other than to destroy it, each other, and everything around us.

My dad used to tell me stories that he and his younger brother as children would catch them, tie strings around them, then run around flying them like kites. 😂

Kinda soothing sound.😊

Umm no thanks

To be honest, I got a little spooked of cicadas one time of course that’s what I get for watching a Scooby Doo mystery and Inc. episode about a bug creature I was just worried that all that went down and that would’ve happened to me I mean come on. I’m sure all of you wouldn’t like 1000 bucks swarming around you like a tornado or a hurricane or even something you would only expect from a movie made by Alfred Hitchcock or even Arnold Stein and I haven’t forgot about Stephen king either or shall I say either

I love the sound of cicadas but I live on the west coast now so never hear them anymore.

i love the sound of cicada.

It has to do with the eclipse

Every year they say we're about to witness a once in a lifetime cicada event.

Ι live in Greece and in my town with lots of pine trees around, we hear those millions (at least) of cicadas celebrating life day and night, for the whole summer. Which here lasts from May to September. Joyful sound.

It might be rare in North carolina, however cicadas are all over the Midwest and on both coasts. . . There's usually a 17 year cicada, green cicadas which usually just take a couple months to emerge, and orchard cicadas, etc. If I'm not mistaken, a 4-5 years ago red-eyed / 17 year cicadas we're all over the national news. . . There is even a headline stating cicadas are safe for dogs to eat, because there were so many of them, they were carpeting the grass and trees

It’s great for napping background noise 😊

I experienced this one time years ago out in the high desert of Northern Nevada. I was out on an extended camping trip. Millions of them. It was deafening for a few days.

Dude, They Come Up Every Year… I’m 30 Years Old, This Is Nothing New To Me!!!😂😂😂

I love Cicadas - always have. Where I live now, they are limited. I wish I could be in those areas with the rare emergences now. How fortunate those folks are.

They said the same thing about these bugs a few years ago and it NEVER happened SMH lol

I was in DC for the Brood X emergence. Walking through the words one day, something occurred to me. The cicadas sounded exactly - and I mean exactly - like a phaser on overload. I told my wife and she was skeptical. When we got home, I played the "phaser on overload clip" from Star Trek. She immediately apologized for doubting me.

Rather a cicadas racket than the crickets. 🦗

The sound is amazing, the sound of sunmer

In Michigan we have had the brown shell shimmering green ones for the last few years.

There are wasps called "cicada killers" that look like murder hornets, but aren't