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Segment 4, May 4th, 2024
Residents of Newberry County South Carolina have called police on the loud noise caused by the emergence of cicadas. The high pitched noise in Newberry alarmed them enough to elicit a response from the county sheriff department.
“We have had several calls about a noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar. The sound is cicadas,” the sheriff’s office said. “Cicadas are a super family of insects that appear each spring. The nymphs have lived underground for 13-17 years and now this time they are hatching. Although to some, the noise is annoying, they pose no danger to humans or pets. Unfortunately, it is the sounds of nature.”
The cicadas in South Carolina are part of the Brood XIX variety that come out every 13 years in the Southeast and Midwest, according to The Washington Post.
Two different broods will be coming out at the same time this year, which hasn’t happened since 1803, the newspaper reported.
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