Was going to mow the lawn this morning, but decided against it. Too many cicadas on the ground and they are attracted to noise. Not only would I get bombarded by the flying ones, but I'd make a mess mowing over the crawling ones and the dead ones. Not worth it!
At this point everything crawls on the ground. It's literally a seething, teaming ocean of insects, and the male mating sound is getting louder everyday. The closest I can describe it is if you saw the original 1950's movie War of the Worlds and the sound that the space ships made while hovering over the ground. That's the loud droning noise you hear during the day. It's non-stop and coming from all directions.
Go to 1:10 minute into the clip and the sound is what it sounds like around here all day. Maybe the sound effect engineers for this movie recorded the cicada mating sound and enhanced it to make it appropriate for this movie?