Living in AZ I’m jealous of place that only get cicadas every 17 years. They are the sound of summer here. When the temps hit 100 the buzz is on. Every. Single. Year. Luckily I currently don’t live in a neighborhood with a lot of them. Where I grew up it was 50, 60 decibels for months.
Hon, you don’t understand. We have cicadas all the time. They make the chirping every summer. But THESE are in addition EN MASSE every 17 years. It is absolutely surreal.
Add in even a simple solar eclipse and it would seem like another world altogether.
Not to mention the absolute mess they create. Crunching on masses of shells everywhere, finding them stuck everywhere, etc.
The sound is like having all those bug sounds channeled into an isolating headset right into your brain.