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1 day ago · In a brief video interview, Rand, who chairs the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology at Brown, shared insights and scientific theories on the two groups of periodical cicadas, which spend most of their lives underground as nymphs before noisily emerging every 13 or 17 years — a phenomenon that happened concurrently this summer for the first time since 1803, making for “a very special event,” Rand said.
3 days ago · Swarms of cicadas. Cicadas and locusts are not the same creature, but there must be those who see a resemblance between the two when it comes to the Biblical story of the Exodus. This year, in an ...
5 days ago · locust, (family Acrididae), any of a group of insects (order Orthoptera) that are distributed worldwide, the common name of which generally refers to the group of short-horned grasshoppers that often increase greatly in numbers and migrate long distances in destructive swarms.
2 days ago · The eggs hatch and the cicada nymphs fall to the ground where they burrow and the cycle repeats. The harsh, buzzing sound of the cicada is a pleasant sign of summer to some people and an anathema ...
3 days ago · CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — With a rare, double emergence of cicada broods in the past, researchers are looking at the damage done to fruits. Karuna Kafle, a researcher within the University of ...
5 days ago · Now the 13-year periodical cicada brood XIX is nearing the end of its life cycle and the next generation is preparing to start the process anew with a flood of nymphs poised to hatch in central and western North Carolina.
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1 day ago · The true horror of Massospora’s interaction with cicadas lies in its ability to manipulate their behavior, turning them into zombies. As the fungus consumes the cicada’s abdomen and organs, it alters the insect’s nervous system and changes its behavior to benefit the fungus’s reproductive cycle. Infected cicadas, despite their physical ...
