Tourists complain French cicadas are 'too loud'
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-tourists-french-cicadas-loud.html
Some had questioned village shopkeepers about how to get their hands on chemical weapons to quieten the racket made by the male cicadas as they "sing" out in search of a mate.
"Five groups have come to see me because they were being annoyed from morning to night by the sound of the cicadas," mayor Georges Ferrero told French radio.