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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — It is the sound of summer in the south.

The dull roar of cicadas.

But there is a type of cicada now filling up neighborhoods across Louisiana called Brood X.

Reporter Alexandra Meachum spoke to an expert about the species in the video clip above.