Whether you love them or hate them, a double brood of cicadas has begun to emerge from the Earth. Residents of the eastern United States have been eagerly awaiting the 2024 periodical cicada emergence, featuring a co-emergence of a 13-year and 17-year brood.

It appeared to start last week, as the internet saw the first cicada videos of the season from South Carolina. This week, they have also been spotted in North Carolina and Illinois.

Sarah Weinberg awoke on April 18 to find the insects everywhere on her gazebo, posting a video to TikTok with the caption “HELLLLP…is this my life now?”

“The 1st cicada video! It’s like the beginning of a horror movie,” commented “LD” in reply.

“Just imagine their point of view: ‘Hey, who put this gazebo here? It wasn’t here when I went in the ground 17 years ago,’” joked “MLFoxjr.”

“Just imagine their point of view: ‘Hey, who put this gazebo here? It wasn’t here when I went in the ground 17 years ago,’” joked “MLFoxjr.”

WATCH:

If you turn the volume on you can hear the cicadas
Loud little bastards 😤 😑 🙄 pic.twitter.com/m5HGVtZoj0

— Randy L (@RandyLa35983906) April 29, 2024

WATCH:

Trillions are coming, this bush alone had thousands. #cicada #apocalypse pic.twitter.com/QlD9L4jiUh

— Joseph Lo PhD (@JosephLo16) April 28, 2024

Local residents are also calling the police about cicada noise in Newberry County, South Carolina, just to the north of Saluda.

“We have had several calls about a noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar,” the sheriff’s office posted on Facebook. “The sound is cicadas. Although to some, the noise is annoying, they pose no danger to humans or pets,” the sheriff’s office said. “Unfortunately, it is [just] the sounds of nature.”

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