Millions of Cicadas! the sound!

[@emiddiomassajr718]

I can’t believe that sound is EXACTLY like my tinnitus! It is actually some comfort to know that others share this experience.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

A few folks have said that...crazy

[@andyjones9386]

You're not alone. I've been hearing that sound for 50 years. It bothers me at times but I've gotten used to it.I don't have a choice for it never stops.

[@techshabby0001]

I hope someone makes a long 1 hour tape of the noise for us tinnitus sufferers.

[@juliemeaton4502]

Sounds like mine too!!!! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

[@SizzleMoonSong]

Exactly what I was gonna say, Mine has been nonstop 24/7/365 since 1984.

[@techshabby0001]

I've always said I have cicadas in my head.

[@TRKIII2755]

It's almost identical to my tinnitus.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

LOL

[@Tralfaz190]

My tinnitus, is higher pitched. But I do get the similarity, and how people would find it to be the same.

[@AKHWJ3ST]

@@Tralfaz190 It's nothing like my tinnitus. But we're all different!

[@glennelliott708]

Between that and tinnitus, I have a standing wave pattern stuck in my head

[@ambitrona]

Thank you for posting this!!! We've been hearing this droning sound for the last 3 days and we thought it was some kind of construction far away but were losing our minds because the noise never stopped. Then one of my neighbors said cicadas and I didn't believe them until I saw your video LOL. I've never heard them sound like this until this year!

[@RiverKingsKayak]

yeah it is a weird background noise...almost like a100 electric vehicles surrounding you or something

[@user-ju1os7kz3q]

I call it the cicada symphony! 😃 Yes. We have ‘em here, too.

[@cheryzheng]

The whooshing of UFOs

[@airolgsmada7970]

Many thanks for the memories!

[@RiverKingsKayak]

Thanks!

[@Tralfaz190]

Reverse time I ever heard cicadas was in Amarillo Texas. I went outside and screamed SHUT UP! Oddly enough, they did stop it didn't last, and then work the second time around my wife told me she experienced the same thing, before we met

[@susanjaeger9851]

Same lovely sound here in Warren County Missouri. Helps me sleep. I love it. It will pass too quickly, enjoy it while it's here, it's special.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

I will miss it!

[@StealthMapper]

Lol @ people calling 911 reporting their neighbors were mowing their lawn in the middle of the night😂

[@RiverKingsKayak]

dang! LOL

[@Pete_R63]

I got kind of lost once on a mountain bike trail in north Georgia one time and it was really eerie. The droning of the cicadas would rise and fall and it felt like it was some sort of alien sound. I came across quite a few dead ones on the trail, too.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

Right on!

[@troybennington3479]

Few years back we were camping in pa, my son was sleeping in a hammock. Woke up covered in them as they came out in droves overnight… he was a little freaked out!

[@djconstant6426]

These guys must be totally different than the gulf coast cicadas. The southern variety that screams every year is in full force right now till at least early October. Nice scenery!!!

[@RiverKingsKayak]

Right on, we have an annual variety as well that is green and looks a bit different.

[@INTERNATIONALvids]

I'm near Jasper Tennessee, right now we hear this noise last few days

[@RiverKingsKayak]

right on!

[@user-so1mv9po2f]

Time to gather some up and go fishing in the Haw and catch some of those corn eyed brown trout

[@RiverKingsKayak]

Good idea!

[@susanjaeger9851]

Right on!

[@koala2464]

Just spent an entire summer in my Australian bush cabin with this noise but louder. And it was rhythmic like nature was breathing in and out. Almost sent me crazy but know it’s pretty awesome experience.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

very nice!

[@jfranklin9549]

The hills are alive with the sound of music! ❤

[@Minikahn1]

Thank you for having the only clean audio of this I could find. Everything else was messed up or 10 minute newscasts with 5 seconds of audio.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

Thanks!

[@SteveAB4EL]

Actually the first couple of days I wondered who was running some high pitched machine on the other side of the adjacent wooded lot. :^) They are crawling over my car port, too. [Randolph Co. NC]

[@theripleyeffect5203]

Our local 911 line got numerous calls recently about a "strange intermittent buzzing coming from the ground". ONE person reported this on our Ring doorbell cam community and panic ensued. It was, of course, cicadas.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

dang! LOL

[@theripleyeffect5203]

@@RiverKingsKayak Bizarro!

[@sgsellsit]

When I hear them I recall the scene in Signs where the alien walks by the birthday party. Imagine you have been hearing that sound all day, it is starting to darken a little, the dog starts going nuts. You open the door and the dog just about takes your feet from underneath you to come in. You walk out on your porch. As you glance toward the woods you see something moving. A scary, ominous figure and then another and another. They haven't noticed you...Yet. You issue an order to get of of your property. They turn abruptly with a snarl. Suddenly the sound gets louder and three of them are moving toward you at a cheetah's pace. You spend the rest of the night barricaded in your home as they watch you through the windows, scratch and hit to get in. all while that noise is occurring. Anyway. Have fun with that.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

LOL! love it!

[@boxergizmo]

Funny, watching this for a brief time drowned out the sound of the cicadas outside my window. But the video ended, I'm hearing the cicadas outside my window again.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

Classic!

[@dellamcgowan7502]

A bit of trivia. Cicadas, more commonly called locusts here in Australia, lay dormant in the ground for about 17 years waiting to hatch. This was a very loud lesson I learned a couple of years ago when they all emerged from their slumber. My friend’s house was surrounded by trees & the noise of the cicadas just singing to the world was deafening. We couldn’t sit on her verandah to talk because we couldn’t hear over the noise. I’m not kidding. As kids we’d catch them & if you found a Black Prince you ruled. To this day I still enjoy seeing the Black Princes although I suspect kids these days have no Interest in playing with something outside in the sun.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

Right on!

[@Tralfaz190]

They're not dormant,😢 they are larvae, they live off the roots of the trees until they pupae and then become adults, and begin their cacophony

[@dellamcgowan7502]

@@Tralfaz190 thank you for taking the time to reply. I didn’t realise how wrong I was. But the one thing we both agree on - cacophony of sound. Rather wonderful isn’t it? Add Magpies to my life & I’m a very happy older Australian.

[@glasswinder]

Sounds like a flying saucer 🎉🎉

[@RiverKingsKayak]

LOL!

[@ericstandefer9138]

Please do 5 minutes of this amazing phenomenon one on sound.

[@tracycase4520]

Nature rocks!

[@madwhitehare3635]

Just be glad it's not locusts. Less 'rocky' then.

[@kennethrkennedy]

A copperheads favorite food singing.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

Ive heard that!

[@jfranklin9549]

When your supper sings to you.

[@jeannemckee2009]

Wow you might want earplugs when you go on walks.😂

[@1bamabrad1]

Been awhile since I’ve heard that!

[@javier77th]

Let me guess….about 17 yrs ago? LOL

[@1bamabrad1]

@@javier77th To be honest, about 34 years ago.

[@javier77th]

@@1bamabrad1 possibly, possibly. The arithmetic seems to be correct. 😊

[@moreme40]

Fortunately, these things have about run their course in Tennessee

[@RiverKingsKayak]

here too...

[@shannonshannonbobannon5040]

Wow how eerie

[@LC444]

I can’t believe I thought this sound was from rattlesnakes 😂

[@Amanda_Blair]

I live in Southeast Missouri and I kept wondering what this sound was bc it doesn’t sound like the normal sounds I would hear from cicadas but I guess it’s bc there never were this many at one time. I’ve been seeing them all over my yard and front porch.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

crazy right!?

[@Amanda_Blair]

@@RiverKingsKayak Yes, and they kind of look like something from an old sci-fi movie with the red eyes 😂

[@RiverKingsKayak]

@@Amanda_Blair I got a close up of one for folks... kzbin.infoutp2pcax9bE

[@DamonRunyon-pu2du]

We havent heard one yet in east texas. I keep waiting to hear them but not a peep.

[@RiverKingsKayak]

they are winding down here...then later we will get the annual cicadas.

[@DamonRunyon-pu2du]

@@RiverKingsKayak I welcome them so I sleep good knowing nothings changed.

[@UltraviolenceTX]

Thank you for this video

[@rmcclain54]

Billions, more likely.

[@lindaestoll1104]

None here in central AR yet.

[@joyfullone3968]

Forest Choir in action!

[@thereforeayam]

'dog is computing'

[@JohnSmith-ih9rh]

Not hearing them at my house. But I did think it was a home alarm at my mom's until my step dad told me what it was. Were in clover s c

[@RiverKingsKayak]

right on!

[@sterlingsilvernecklace]

I love it ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[@RiverKingsKayak]

Thanks SSN!

[@greatfullded]

I can see setting up camp right there and have a good night sleep

[@Brucev7]

Ah..Summer 🦗

[@CentralNexusPrime]

Act 1 of a new SciFi Channel monster flick 😊

[@RiverKingsKayak]

he he!

[@shaneoakley8757]

Aliens

[@bashy2.0]

I dont want to say it but, its deffo 👾 👾 👽 👽

[@RiverKingsKayak]

LOL!

[@canajian]

🖐😎👍

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

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[@TooStinkinFine]

I’m so glad they’re gone! It will drive you crazy for a few weeks……🤪🤪🤪