Cicadas are so noisy in one South Carolina county that residents are calling 911, sheriff says

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NEWBERRY COUNTY, S.C. — Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking about strange noises.

"We have had several calls about a noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar," The Newberry County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. "The sound is cicadas."

Deputies said that the whining sound is just the male cicadas singing to attract mates after more than a decade of being dormant. ---More...