Cicada | The Loudest Insect On Earth 

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A bunch of those come in the summer and it’s like an air raid 24/7

Cicada wife: “Will you just SHUT UP!”

I think when everyone hears this they know it's summertime

These insects have a unique mating call that is specific to their species, allowing males and females to find each other even in the midst of a deafening chorus of cicada song.

In Chicago when the 17 year cicadas appear, it's a crisis. The noise is unbelievable !

Bro is louder than my neighbor's baby

Love cicadas and love hearing them. It’s the sound of summer. Played with them when I was a kid.

That audio at the beginning sounded like a emergency alarm 💀

cicadas make the beautiful sound and they are cute. cant waite to hear them again.

My dad called them "July flies".The 17-year cicadas look like a prehistoric bug.

We always have that during hot months in The Philippines. I find the noise relaxing.

I love the way they sound at night

The 17 year cicadas were certainly an era. 2021 of summer will be missed

Imagine hearing those noise when you are alone at night 😮

Imagine you dive, find this thing in water, where they can be in sometimes, where sound waves travel 4.3 times faster than in air

My favorite summer sound, the cicades call beautiful insect too... ❤

I love cicadas! They're quite cute and harmless (they don't bite) plus the noises they make always evoke a feeling of nostalgia for me. Summer wouldn't be my favorite season without these little critters

This reminds me of my autism and processing disorders. I can't process speech but I can speak. I can't process light in my left eye but I still have sight. I have learned how to do everything differently because I was born uniquely autistically me. My world is always loud and painful. I can hear sounds from far away places and I see visual effects and have textured experiences with my senses. Also, cicadas are amazing and beautiful. I have seen them before when visiting relatives. My cousin was mowing the lawn and cicadas gathered onto the lawn mower and started making noises. I think they got confused and mistaken the mower for a mate because it was making the same sound. We felt bad for them and turned everything off until they left. It took a few days before everything got back to normal. It was a unique experience. Nature is amazing and beautiful. ❤️

I hear these guys nearly every day.

Sounds like distorted baby cry and death whistle.

Imagine hearing that in your room at 3 Am

You know it's a hot day in Canada when you hear them all around you. Love that sound.

Tennessee and Virginia from what I’ve experienced have some of the most intense cicada calls in the summer on planet earth.

I’m hearing one of these right now and I had to know what it is, and I wasn’t surprised when I got this result when looking up “the loudest bug in the world”.

I love these creatures! There's a few that live in the garden outside my house, the often sit on my windows and make those sounds. I'm comforted by it. 😅

There was a park near my grandmother's farm. And during the summers they'd be everywhere in the trees and sand, scared me to death for years

“I think I forgot my alar- oh never mind! There’s one on this tree!” 😂

Fun fact: cicadas are completely harmless and my grandfather used to capture them, rip off their wings and feed them to his cat!😭

Looked like the dead bodies rising due to some forces😂

I hear them every year, but I've never seen one in person.

I remember when I was lil cicadas would get stuck on my front porch some how and I would pick them up carefully it would still make loud sounds but it did not try to fly and one day I was bringing one down my stairs and when I looked at my hand it stuck a tube inside of me like a tiny straw💀

I remember seeing a whole bunch of them in back of my high school

In need mexico our cicadas come out about once every seven years. When they do, there are so many they litter the walk ways and yards. The noise is astounding and unmistakable.

This is what my alarm sounds like when I’m dreaming

bro i am literally abandoning my house if i hear that

babies 0.001 seconds after realizing they saw a wall:

These things in my backyard rn screaming North America

I swear those are just my class as an insect 💀

I would love using them as my alarm clock

"Ah, another vacation. How nice" Babies:

Come to Italy and you'll hear them everywhere. Sometimes it's so loud, you can't even hear what the other person next to you is saying

No one: Cicadas: aaAAAAAAAAAA

Those freak me out when they land on the ground😭😭

so you’re telling me a cicada waited 17 years to come out of the ground just for me to step on him one hour before he emerged from his shell lol.. i thought it was a shell but it had guts after and i was like “oh”

Sometimes I envy hibernating animals: imagine sleeping when times are are tough and only ever popping up to live when the time is right😅...

Sounds like 'war of the worlds,' lol.

Legit one outside right now and it sounds like a high pitched screech.

That's why my dog like to play with them! 😂

My phone ringing in the morning

My grandma has those outside her house. Its super loud when I am outside just trying to play.

Whenever i try to sleep this insect's cousin starts singing.

i hear those every day

Thank god we don’t have those devil insects here

That's an amazing sounding insect

"Some wait 17 years to go through metamorphosis. And the stink bugs and the bed bugs are notorious." Finally got my answer to the Whizpops song. Always wondered what bug they were talking about.

Love these things. Every Summer I would go at night and see them coming of there shells. They would be lime green.

You never heard my dog when he begs for a treat

A male cicada’s mating call sounds similar to that of a bellbird.

The 13 year cicadas are starting to emerge here in middle Tennessee. I live in a heavily wooded area. In 2011, they were so loud, my ears were ringing as I unpacked the car from a road trip.

Whenever I go to places with many trees I always hear cicadas everywhere, and it's so annoying.

I be hearing these guys when I'm outside

This is what Internal screaming Sounds like

Spending 17 years underground just to have 5 years to live💀

First one sounded like a human screaming in horror the other sounded like a roughed up motor going in and out of power. Thank God the ones we have here sound like an earpiercing whistle 🇨🇦 😂

Billions of these in Tx,theyre no joke

Cicada has it worse they spend their whole lives in hibernation and when they actually get to do something they only have five or six weeks before dying

-Oh my gawd! 😳 That's possibly one of the worst sounds I've ever heard. I can't even imagine how awful that must be to hear live.

It sound like they’re in horror movies

Bro sounds like a pokemon in the first one

I love Cicadas. I remember the huge invasion of summer 2004, I was a kid then. I also witnessed the 2021 brood. Will be 14 more years before they return to the Midwest.

It kinda sounds like a screaming madman tbh

They are very gentle creatures & do not have the ability to bite nor sting. But if you want to look at one up close it’s best to wear some yard gloves so that they don’t get their razor sharp hooks in your skin literally. They have a claw on each of their feet, that will hook into your skin much like cat claws do. Their claws can tear your skin which is painful despite their small size. They will only tear your skin if you try to pull them off of your skin, so it is best to take a stick or some other rough textured object that they can cling to and put it in front of them while someone coaxes them to crawl onto the object and turn loose of your skin.

Oh so that's what I keep hearing at night

Lmao cicadas during the night are fun to hear while walking

That one criclet outside of my house: *PATHETIC*

I live in Mississippi and these things are everywhere

Sound like an alien alarm going off.

omg and I thought mothers holding their screaming babies were loud xD

Amerika is strange would never visit this country fs

in georgia we are happy when its warm and when the cicadas make that sound. yankees need to get it together

“ sickada “ Bro is on something

And my cat loves to play with this animal inside my house in the middle of the night

They look cute goofy and funny

I'm so glad they aren't around where I live. I had to spend some time in CO once, and I couldn't be outside those blasted bugs were so damn loud.

I LOVE hearing these little guys.

White bellbird, the loudest bird: am i a joke to you

one landed on me the other day, I thought it was a fly on steroids.

Bro, that black cicada went straight for the bite.

Cicadas screaming in 115° sun

Cicadas are intriguing insects known for their exceptionally long life cycles, which can vary between 2 to 17 years depending on the species. These extended life cycles are believed to be an adaptation that helps them avoid predators and synchronize their emergence with certain environmental conditions. During their underground phase, cicada nymphs feed on the sap of tree roots, using their specialized piercing-sucking mouthparts. When they finally emerge as adults, they shed their exoskeletons, leaving behind the iconic exuviae or empty shells. Adult cicadas have large, membranous wings and are renowned for their loud and distinctive mating calls, produced by specialized sound-producing structures called tymbals. These calls can be so deafening that they can reach up to 120 decibels, rivaling the noise level of a chainsaw. Cicadas play a crucial role in various ecosystems, serving as a food source for many animals, and their periodic emergences have fascinated scientists and entomologists for centuries. Their unique life history and behavior continue to be subjects of study and admiration in the world of biology.

Cicada days

Is it loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss to humans I’m lost

Every time when the sun is about set on a hot summer, these thing come together and make an obnoxious sound.

Imagine this thing comes to u while you are sleeping😂

I wish they were like morning geckos make a video about morning geckos

Bro turned into a iphone ringtone💀

Sounds like a Siren Head parody ngl

And the loudest species of cicada is the Australian Greengrocer (Cyclochila australasiae), and can have calls as loud as 150 decibels. I am so glad that I don't live there

I dont think trees can hear, but i bet they can hear those noisy things!