Cicadas are emerging — and they’re so loud, some called their sheriff

The winged insects that spend most of their lives underground are emerging across the country in the spring or summer to molt into their adult forms, which make those infamously loud courtship calls. Their brief lives are spent mating — in a manner so noisy that at least a dozen Newberry County residents called the sheriff’s office in alarm this week. The cicadas’ din in the South Carolina county is a snapshot of what a swath of the U.S. will experience over several weeks, as billions of cicadas, from two...