"People were curious and did not know who else to call," Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster tells PEOPLE The cicada ...

Sheriff Lee Foster in Newberry County says they have had calls of noise complaints over the last few days, with people in the area mistaking the sound of cicadas for large machinery. "Some people ...

Cicadas are known for their loud, shrill noise and exoskeletons (discarded shells). Along with hemipterans like leafhoppers ...

NEWBERRY COUNTY, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - Cicadas are beginning to appear in South Carolina, and they’re apparently so loud ...

A pair of cicadas in Maryland three years ago. In South Carolina, Newberry County, population 40,000, seems to have “more cicadas than we have people,” joked Sheriff Lee Foster. In the county ...

The Newberry County Sheriff's Office posted 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 ...

A South Carolina sheriff’s department has been swarmed with 911 calls about incessant siren sounds — only to find out that the concerned citizens are complaining about cicadas. Newberry County ...

NEWBERRY, S.C. — Sheriff Lee Foster in Newberry County says they have had calls of noise complaints over the last few days, with people in the area mistaking the sound of cicadas for large ...

NEWBERRY, S.C. — 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 ...

NEWBERRY, S.C. — 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 ...

Cicadas Are So Noisy in a South Carolina County That Residents Are Calling the Police NEWBERRY, S.C. (AP) — Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling ...