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  2. Here's what 'Cicadageddon 2024' will sound like, and ... - AOL

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    Cicadas repeat this movement on either side 300 to 400 times a second to create their unique sound. Two eardrums are responsible for carrying sound from the cicada's abdomen to the outside.

  3. Cicadidae - Wikipedia

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    Male cicadas can produce four types of acoustic signals: songs, calls, low-amplitude songs, and disturbance sounds. [7] Unlike members of the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids), who use stridulation to produce sounds, members of Cicadidae produce sounds using a pair of tymbals, which are modified membranes located on the ...

  4. Cicada - Wikipedia

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    Males disable their own tympana while calling, thereby preventing damage to their hearing; [45] a necessity partly because some cicadas produce sounds up to 120 dB (SPL) [45] which is among the loudest of all insect-produced sounds. [46] The song is loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss in humans should the cicada be at "close range". In ...

  5. Cicada hatch 2024: How loud will it be and when will noise ...

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    This graphic and audio file provide an idea of what cicadas sound like and how loud they are. Where and when periodical cicadas will emerge. Broods XIX and XIII will appear in 17 states: Alabama ...

  6. How do cicadas make their signature sound, so eerie and ... - AOL

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    The sound comes from a white membrane on the male's midsection that is made to vibrate, Schmidt and Rydzewski said. The area beneath it acts like an echo chamber. “It’s a lot of the same sort ...

  7. Tymbal - Wikipedia

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    Some cicadas produce sounds louder than 106 dB (SPL), among the loudest of all insect-produced sounds. [2] They modulate their noise by positioning their abdomens toward or away from the substrate. The sound of an Amphipsalta zelandica cicada in Lower Hutt , New Zealand , recorded in mid-February, 2006

  8. Periodical cicadas - Wikipedia

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    The sound is of thousands of cicadas. Nearly all cicadas spend years underground as juveniles, before emerging above ground for a short adult stage of several weeks to a few months. The seven periodical cicada species are so named because, in any one location, all members of the population are developmentally synchronized—they emerge as ...

  9. Cicada 'roar': Concerned SC residents call police. What to ...

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    "The sound is cicadas," the post 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."