One way is to build an interactive cicada sound machine that plays the different calls of Brood X. A Kennedy Heights Montessori teacher did it and his students can't stop buzzing about it.

Windmill said the sounds the cicadas make can get up to about 100 decibels. For comparison, he said the average voice is 50 to 60 decibels and a shout is about 70 to 75.

A converted mobile home, The Cicada is the first project from Itinerant Immersive, a company founded by Ben Ezzell, an ...

And it is quite a party — the music, to us, raucous, but to the cicada, it’s Frank Sinatra on a first date. No sound system is required. They are one of the world’s longest-lived insects.

Windmill said the sounds the cicadas make can get up to about 100 decibels. For comparison, he said the average voice is 50 to 60 decibels and a shout is about 70 to 75.