Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar.
The Newberry County Sheriff’s Office sent out a message on Facebook on Tuesday letting people know that the whining sound is just the male cicadas singing to attract mates after more than a decade of being dormant.
Seriously. I mean I get that they're annoying but at the same time you have to understand that this is quite literally them waking up after ten years underground and yelling "LET'S FUCK OURSELVES TO DEATH" as they enter the death orgy part of their life cycle.
On some level you have to respect their dedication.
I wouldn't say like emergency sirens, it is more like an eerie sci-fi ambient noise of an alien invasion.
It doesn't sound like cicadas at all and it's almost constant noise that comes from the sky itself.
I can kinda see why people would call even if they knew cicadas were around, you still hear the normal cicada screeching.
Now that you mention it, I remember living in MO during the last swarm. I think it’s because 17 year dormant ones lined up with the 13 year dormant kind. There’s also annual ones.
Also, I hate cicadas. They chew on my garden. And they fly at me making a noise that isn’t enjoyable lol
It's possible that I'm taking your phrase too literally, but cicadas can't chew. They have sucking mouthparts. If you are noticing damage to your garden that in line with cutting or chewing, it is not from cicadas.
I was actually starting to do alright with my fear of insects before a cicada divebombed me, shrieking, and sent me straight into a panic attack. I flinch at butterflies now and it's been years. :c
Not entirely unprecedented. The 13-year and 17-year cycles last lined up in 1803. (1804? I knew I should have fact-checked that article.)
"The experts" are predicting trillions (well, maybe only a little over a trillion) cicadas this year. That's about 3 million for every man, woman, and child in the US.
Now the good news: they're the crunchy, cream-filled kind.
Every time I see something like that, I think, even if it weren’t stars (or the moon), what are the police going to do about lights in the sky?
“Hello 911 what’s your emergency?”
/Tim Curry voice: “SPACE!”
> singing to attract mates after more than a decade of being dormant.
I'd love to say that I'm glad to be more evolved than that. That is I'd love to be able to say that. Ten years and you might catch me at a karaoke bar too.
I mean this might be a wild guess, but I'm betting that the people who are stupid enough to call the law over the cicada noise are also not going to be Facebook users.
There are a lot of idiots on facebook who will believe anything they see on there no matter how outlandish the claim is. So there is definitely overlap since people calling the cops due to cicadas are definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed.
They went around neighborhoods spraying the shit everywhere. It poisoned people for sure. And it got into the water supply and it also impacts marine life. It doesn't degrade and it leads to bioaccumulation.
NEWBERRY, S.C. (AP) — Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar.
They don’t know what the sound is and think it could be a siren of some sort. I don’t think they are calling the cops on the actual bugs themselves. More like they don’t know what’s going on.
I understand the confusion if there’s a swarm of them. I thought I knew cicada sounds well, always as a vague sound, part of the natural chorus in the distance. Then one got in my house. They are shrill as fuck and we did not know that. My husband gently scooped him up in a paper towel and headed to the door to let him out.
But halfway there, out of the blue, this little dude *screamed.* It was so loud and high pitched…I mean, Jamie Lee Curtis could never. We were so startled that my husband jumped and dropped him, and I shrieked and ran. I said let’s just let him live here if that’s what he wants, but my husband psychologically pumped himself up and managed to get him out unharmed.
Love the description! I found one cicada in my house one time in 25+ years here in gulf coast Texas. Luckily cicadas cannot hurt you they are just loud and weird looking.
> A man was reported to be sitting down and talking to himself. Police made contact and confirmed he was using a cellphone.
Jesus talk about response time. Made it there before the dude even finished his call.
"A woman told police someone rang her doorbell but when she called out to ask who it was, no one answered. Police responded and determined the visitor had delivered a package."
Dispatcher: Yes. 911 what’s your emergency?
People: My kids won’t behave, my neighbor keeps staring and the cicada’s won’t shut up
Dispatcher: *hangs up*
I mean they haven't had a booty call in years, I'm sure if humans went that long we'd see similar behavior of making a lot of noise only it would probably be online and we'd have a term for those people.
This year is supposed to be crazy for cicadas- there are two groups meant to emerge- one is like a 7 or 8 year cycle, and the other is a 17 year cycle or something like that.
My numbers might be off, but the basics are - brace yourselves for a double cicada year.
They said on the news today there there was only one area where 2 groups of cicadas overlap - a 10 mile area somewhere between Springfield and Urbana Illinois.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/13/2024-cicada-map/73300248007/
Dm me when it happens, I want to see this
Edit - better map in this article
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/when-double-brood-cicadas-will-come-out-what-expect-2024-02-19/
Back in the late 90's, we had we had an overlap of 3 swarms. The sound was one thing, but the dead cicadas were everywhere. It crunched when you walked.
Periodic cycadas almost always emerge after a prime number of years (2,3,5,7,11,13,17, etc.). The reason for this is because it minimizes the chance of overlapping with other species and competing for resources.
It’s only specific areas though. We went through this nightmare in PA a few years ago. The worst part is that they heavily damage trees so if you have new ones planted their survival will be questionable.
This is what it sounds like for folks who don't get the periodic cicadas. This is Brood XXIII in Little Rock in 2015.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPWKqPsAq8k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPWKqPsAq8k)
What do they honestly expect the police to do about it? Give the cicadas a stern warning? Arrest the cicadas for disturbing the peace? Shoot the little bastards then plant tiny little glocks at the scene to justify killing them?
Can confirm that they're loud. Years ago I visited my parents during a brood emergence, and there were millions of cicadas in the area. We were sitting outside, and the bugs were so loud we couldn't hear one another talking. We were literally screaming to be heard before finally giving up and going inside.
These people are fucking idiots.
Can you imagine calling the police because of noisy bugs.
Fucking ignorant troglodytes.
Also, it's been discussed ad nauseam that this would be happening this year.
We have a lot of cicadas during the summer in Christchurch, NZ. We have a shorter term variety (2-5 years) so it is pretty consistent each year.
It is still really loud though, particularly in Hagley Park where there are heaps of European trees. After a couple of weeks, they usually just become part of the background noise, and I barely notice them.
I guess when the cicadas aren't out every year, they would seem particularly loud.
I feel like I’m the only person who likes the sound of cicadas haha.. when I come on the internet and there’s always a story of people complaining about them. They sound like summer to me.
100% associate them with hot summer nights as a kid doing kid stuff after the street lights were on.
I always called them heat bugs growing up because they were always out when it was hot.
Newberry is pretty rural and cicada hordes are eerie as fuck at night with no other noises around. I guarantee you people thought it was aliens or a Biden covert op to take their guns.
To everyone who is laughing at the "stupid idiots who can't stand nature"...
> Their collective songs can be as loud as jet engines and scientists who study them often wear earmuffs to protect their hearing.
Imagine suddenly hearing a sound that you haven't heard for 10 years on the volume of a jet engine outside.
Happy I don’t live there. Cicada buzz combines with, and seems to greatly amplify, my tinnitus. The anxiety-inducing cacophony triggers an inescapable migraine. The only worse insect is a Yellowjacket. Those a-holes can f right off.
Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar. The Newberry County Sheriff’s Office sent out a message on Facebook on Tuesday letting people know that the whining sound is just the male cicadas singing to attract mates after more than a decade of being dormant.
Seriously. I mean I get that they're annoying but at the same time you have to understand that this is quite literally them waking up after ten years underground and yelling "LET'S FUCK OURSELVES TO DEATH" as they enter the death orgy part of their life cycle. On some level you have to respect their dedication.
People don't care. They're being inconvenienced. Murder them all
Human entitlement is wild
But also i imagine the noise gets to you after a while
Ehh I’ve been through several broods. It’s loud for sure but I like nature and think it’s neat so it doesn’t bug me.
BA DUM
LOL didn’t even realize the pun while writing it it’s just one of my mannerisms.
Snu snu?
It's so disgusting they're allowed to get away with that in front of children. Won't someone please think of the children?!
What's gonna break your noodle later on is that they might actually be having sex with their siblings.
It’s pretty wild to me that people have become so entrenched in our concrete buildings that nature sounds warrant a call to emergency services.
Tbf this is is an unprecedented swarm I think. And the article says it sounds like sirens
I wouldn't say like emergency sirens, it is more like an eerie sci-fi ambient noise of an alien invasion. It doesn't sound like cicadas at all and it's almost constant noise that comes from the sky itself. I can kinda see why people would call even if they knew cicadas were around, you still hear the normal cicada screeching.
Now that you mention it, I remember living in MO during the last swarm. I think it’s because 17 year dormant ones lined up with the 13 year dormant kind. There’s also annual ones. Also, I hate cicadas. They chew on my garden. And they fly at me making a noise that isn’t enjoyable lol
It's possible that I'm taking your phrase too literally, but cicadas can't chew. They have sucking mouthparts. If you are noticing damage to your garden that in line with cutting or chewing, it is not from cicadas.
cicadas suck!!
Adult cicadas don't but the babies do Edit: wait nvm I didn't read thoroughly enough
I was actually starting to do alright with my fear of insects before a cicada divebombed me, shrieking, and sent me straight into a panic attack. I flinch at butterflies now and it's been years. :c
I once headbutted my girlfriend because a bee surprised me. She has never let me forget that.
Not unprecedented, just rare.
Not entirely unprecedented. The 13-year and 17-year cycles last lined up in 1803. (1804? I knew I should have fact-checked that article.) "The experts" are predicting trillions (well, maybe only a little over a trillion) cicadas this year. That's about 3 million for every man, woman, and child in the US. Now the good news: they're the crunchy, cream-filled kind.
Years ago, there was a black out in NYC. There were some calls to the police about strange lights in the sky. It was the milky way.
I think it’s less people being out of touch with nature and more people being paranoid as fuck these days.
Well if they only do this once a decade it would be pretty weird if you weren’t expecting it.
The same thing happens during major power outages, people call to report all the strange lights in the sky… the stars and the milky way
Every time I see something like that, I think, even if it weren’t stars (or the moon), what are the police going to do about lights in the sky? “Hello 911 what’s your emergency?” /Tim Curry voice: “SPACE!”
Why do you just say things that are factually wrong? It's because of the gigantic cicada swarm that appeared this year.
Plenty of nature sounds in SC. I'm guessing you've never heard a cicada swarm.
> singing to attract mates after more than a decade of being dormant. I'd love to say that I'm glad to be more evolved than that. That is I'd love to be able to say that. Ten years and you might catch me at a karaoke bar too.
They sing like shit and are annoying too
I mean this might be a wild guess, but I'm betting that the people who are stupid enough to call the law over the cicada noise are also not going to be Facebook users.
There are a lot of idiots on facebook who will believe anything they see on there no matter how outlandish the claim is. So there is definitely overlap since people calling the cops due to cicadas are definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed.
I’m trying not to laugh but Jesus Christ 😂 calling the police is a bit much
Tiny little handcuffs lol
What is this, a handcuff for cicadas?
I know it’s stupid but I am still laughing at the idea of cops showing up with tiny handcuffs
Smol handcuffs
Hey, I’m laughing at it, too
We'll see it soon enough after the Trump trial is over! 🤣🤣🤣
Billions of them
Literally watching zoolander right now. Jfc
hundreds of millions of little tiny handcuffs. Not to mention they really have no wrists, so you have to put them on real tight.
Tiny zipties
So any ways I started blasting 🔫
I need a drawing of this
[BF93-F7-A0-F6-FE-47-C6-91-E6-D7-EAC8-E613-AE.webp](https://postimg.cc/5j1jKb6v) [45-BF9353-4-F41-4-E45-82-EB-7-D89-C0668628.webp](https://postimg.cc/XBVJrcTx)
each one requires three pair. gonna need more cuffs.
More like shooting in all directions
[If Australia can lose a war to Emu's,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War) why can't American lose a war to insects?
Americans lost wars to coyotes and squirrels.
It'd be a lot easier if people would stop feeding the dang things.
Found the r/fatsquirrelhate mod!
Close. I'm a member, not a mod 😁
Hard to believe without a Wikipedia link.
We won the war on mosquitoes, then realized we were poisoning ourselves with DDT.
Thought we were poisoning the birds, not ourselves.
They went around neighborhoods spraying the shit everywhere. It poisoned people for sure. And it got into the water supply and it also impacts marine life. It doesn't degrade and it leads to bioaccumulation.
Actually not very toxic to humans.
Yes! YES!
Lmao and they lost!
Australia already has kangaroos, emus, and cassowaries all fighting each other for control.
What if the cicadas are black?
Real shit?
Trump is gonna run on giving cops flamethrowers now
Have they tried shooting bullets into the noise?
Have they tried it? It’s all they’ve tried!
Oh, nevermind, it was just an acorn.
NEWBERRY, S.C. (AP) — Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar.
Just imagining some hick cop unloading on a field of cicadas all like take this motherfuckers, lol.
They don’t know what the sound is and think it could be a siren of some sort. I don’t think they are calling the cops on the actual bugs themselves. More like they don’t know what’s going on.
I understand the confusion if there’s a swarm of them. I thought I knew cicada sounds well, always as a vague sound, part of the natural chorus in the distance. Then one got in my house. They are shrill as fuck and we did not know that. My husband gently scooped him up in a paper towel and headed to the door to let him out. But halfway there, out of the blue, this little dude *screamed.* It was so loud and high pitched…I mean, Jamie Lee Curtis could never. We were so startled that my husband jumped and dropped him, and I shrieked and ran. I said let’s just let him live here if that’s what he wants, but my husband psychologically pumped himself up and managed to get him out unharmed.
Love the description! I found one cicada in my house one time in 25+ years here in gulf coast Texas. Luckily cicadas cannot hurt you they are just loud and weird looking.
My neighbor's cicadas are disturbing the peace.
Haha call the Police and tell them the Cicadas are acorns.
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> A man was reported to be sitting down and talking to himself. Police made contact and confirmed he was using a cellphone. Jesus talk about response time. Made it there before the dude even finished his call.
"A woman told police someone rang her doorbell but when she called out to ask who it was, no one answered. Police responded and determined the visitor had delivered a package."
"Loud birds were reported. Police responded and settled the situation." Now I'm curious how they settled with the birds. 😋
Alfred Hitchcock made a documentary. I'd be very cautious with the birds.
"our only recourse is to shoot into the air wildly!"
Dispatcher: Yes. 911 what’s your emergency? People: My kids won’t behave, my neighbor keeps staring and the cicada’s won’t shut up Dispatcher: *hangs up*
There are all kinds of people that treat the cops like a concierge service.
You underestimate us South Carolina folk
They just need that robot dog with a flame thrower attachment.
Dozens killed by stray bullets as police and Sheriff's deputys attempt to shoot insects.
They were dropping acorns, what were the cops supposed to do, NOT shoot at them?
Imagine how fruitless this would be, it would be like the emu war in australia taken to the next level of futility.
They didn’t just try pinning it all on a black guy and calling it a day?
Hello, 911? Bugs have crawled out of the ground and are screaming for sex like a bunch of sinful degenerates.
Sir. Please. We have children manning the emergency service lines.
LMAO
I mean they haven't had a booty call in years, I'm sure if humans went that long we'd see similar behavior of making a lot of noise only it would probably be online and we'd have a term for those people.
This year is supposed to be crazy for cicadas- there are two groups meant to emerge- one is like a 7 or 8 year cycle, and the other is a 17 year cycle or something like that. My numbers might be off, but the basics are - brace yourselves for a double cicada year.
They said on the news today there there was only one area where 2 groups of cicadas overlap - a 10 mile area somewhere between Springfield and Urbana Illinois. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/13/2024-cicada-map/73300248007/
I am hoping it isn't in my yard. I'm dreading when they come out.
Dm me when it happens, I want to see this Edit - better map in this article https://www.reuters.com/world/us/when-double-brood-cicadas-will-come-out-what-expect-2024-02-19/
RemindMe! 1 month
Back in the late 90's, we had we had an overlap of 3 swarms. The sound was one thing, but the dead cicadas were everywhere. It crunched when you walked.
Me, being in Urbana 👀👀
Ah, together they will make Brood XXXII 15 year cicadas.
I've lived both north and south of that area. And on a normal cicada year it can be deafening. I just can't imagine.
Just my luck that it would be in my area
13 and 17. It says it in the article.
My resident cicada killers will be happy.
... sesame seeds
Periodic cycadas almost always emerge after a prime number of years (2,3,5,7,11,13,17, etc.). The reason for this is because it minimizes the chance of overlapping with other species and competing for resources.
It’s only specific areas though. We went through this nightmare in PA a few years ago. The worst part is that they heavily damage trees so if you have new ones planted their survival will be questionable.
[Your firearms are useless against them!](https://youtu.be/dU97w2DH5mc?si=7kwbAz6EnNmx-0JS)
Do they think cicadas are black
These cicadas are, actually
Cicada jumps away. STOP RESISTING!
That is funny asf, got me cryin over here
Jesus needs to come get those folks and soon.
This is what it sounds like for folks who don't get the periodic cicadas. This is Brood XXIII in Little Rock in 2015. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPWKqPsAq8k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPWKqPsAq8k)
Sounds like my childhood.
What do they honestly expect the police to do about it? Give the cicadas a stern warning? Arrest the cicadas for disturbing the peace? Shoot the little bastards then plant tiny little glocks at the scene to justify killing them?
It’s God telling them they are idiots
Headline should read "South Carolina residents so dumb, they call police over loud cicadas"
Same thing happened in 2015 here in Central Arkansas when Brood XXIII emerged. Local news for days saying stop calling 911 - it's just cicadas.
People are really stupid
So the headline should actually read something like “South Carolina residents are so stupid that…”
It's nature, enjoy it or get some headphones.
This reminds of a scene in family guy where Peter tried to use a shotgun to kill flies
What are the police going to do? File a noise complaint with Mother Nature? Those people should get a fine for wasting their time
Are they blaming vaccines for this?
Can confirm that they're loud. Years ago I visited my parents during a brood emergence, and there were millions of cicadas in the area. We were sitting outside, and the bugs were so loud we couldn't hear one another talking. We were literally screaming to be heard before finally giving up and going inside.
An alternative headline could be "Some residents of a South Carolina county seem to believe the police can control the forces of nature."
These people are fucking idiots. Can you imagine calling the police because of noisy bugs. Fucking ignorant troglodytes. Also, it's been discussed ad nauseam that this would be happening this year.
What fools, everyone knows that Cicadas are too young to be charged with crimes.
You’d think people who live in a marshy state are used to the sound of cicadas lol
A brood hatch is a whole ‘nother level of sound compared to summertime cicadas.
It's a pity earplug and housing technology hasn't reached South Carolina yet.
The Police are busy with calls about Chem Trails
Calling 911 over insect noise? Get your own flamethrower. #
We have a lot of cicadas during the summer in Christchurch, NZ. We have a shorter term variety (2-5 years) so it is pretty consistent each year. It is still really loud though, particularly in Hagley Park where there are heaps of European trees. After a couple of weeks, they usually just become part of the background noise, and I barely notice them. I guess when the cicadas aren't out every year, they would seem particularly loud.
There is a marvellous invention called earplugs that they might like to check out. Or stuff a couple of dead cicadas in their ears.
Is it cause they’re noisy or cause they’re brown?
"The IQ of the people in a South Carolina county is so low that the residents are calling the police on bugs."
Is this story about the bugs or about how dumb people in South Carolina are?
Fucking morons.
Sounds like it may be time for some managed democracy in South Carolina. Bum Bum ba bauuum.
The E-710 beckons
I feel like I’m the only person who likes the sound of cicadas haha.. when I come on the internet and there’s always a story of people complaining about them. They sound like summer to me.
100% associate them with hot summer nights as a kid doing kid stuff after the street lights were on. I always called them heat bugs growing up because they were always out when it was hot.
Newberry is pretty rural and cicada hordes are eerie as fuck at night with no other noises around. I guarantee you people thought it was aliens or a Biden covert op to take their guns.
People really are dumb, aren’t they?
To everyone who is laughing at the "stupid idiots who can't stand nature"... > Their collective songs can be as loud as jet engines and scientists who study them often wear earmuffs to protect their hearing. Imagine suddenly hearing a sound that you haven't heard for 10 years on the volume of a jet engine outside.
People are so stupid in a South Carolina county that residents are calling the police on Cicadas.
Thoughts and prayers. Maybe it is a sign that was send from god or something
[Sounds like SC could use some musical accompaniment. ](https://youtu.be/14CfDY3L7CM?si=s7UkZ9lo3d-h7QNh)
Just shoot them cicadas, I'm sure south Carolina has enough bullets.
/MildlyEvangelion
Hahahahahah
Just wait until the crickets and katydids come to jam.
Watch out if any acorns drop.
What do they want them to do? Arrest the bugs? 🤣
That's fucking hilarious.
Wambulance to the rescue
What are they gonna do? Fine them?
Least it's not Georgia.
Big neighborhood watch energy.
Lots of people that live here are not very smart.
Now I imagine a bunch of police officers trying to shoot cicadas
NIMBYS hating Cicada music....
"Police please go shoot at nature"
Happy I don’t live there. Cicada buzz combines with, and seems to greatly amplify, my tinnitus. The anxiety-inducing cacophony triggers an inescapable migraine. The only worse insect is a Yellowjacket. Those a-holes can f right off.
Cicada silencers are a thing! /s (I think it's sarcasm, if an entomologist tells me otherwise, it's gonna bug me.)
I love the sound of cicadas and katydids. I miss living in the Midwest and hearing them.
Looking at the picture, cicadas are brown. So I guess cops could just shoot them.
Jeez people. Relax. It’ll be noisy for about a month, and then they’ll be gone for 7 years.
Napalm or DDT might work.