Cicadas

This summer's hottest North American bug is without question, the cicada. They've got everything: neon-colored wing veins, bendy-straw-style exoskeletons, an insatiable thirst for tree goo, and after 17 years of napping, they're bursting out of the ground ready to par-tay!
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[This or That: Cicadas or the Beatles]
science.org/content/article/secret-cicadas-chirp
cicadas.uconn.edu/behavior
eurekalert.org/news-releases/698019
Algorithm to measure song changes over time
eurekalert.org/news-releases/500262
science.org/content/article/computer-charts-ev…
Test signals in fiber optic cables
entomologytoday.org/2023/12/04/broadband-buzz-…
academic.oup.com/jinsectscience/article/23/6/3…
Female flies responding to songs
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932889
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/cicadas-are-the-…
Eroom’s Law principle related to drug development
science.org/content/blog-post/eroom-s-law
iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bmb.…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroom%27s_law
[Trivia Question]
Bird hunting caterpillars on emergence and non-emergence years
science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7426
vox.com/down-to-earth/24148209/cicadas-2024-pe…
[Fact Off]
Brown bears digging up cicada nymphs in Japanese human-planted forests
eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/8…
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjz-2020-0222
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.100…
eurekalert.org/news-releases/1036064
Cicadas pee in a very mammal-like stream
scientificamerican.com/article/why-cicadas-pow…
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cicada sound production using the tymbal, stridulation, or wing impacts
link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/9…
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/198/4/1001…
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/j…
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/151/1/41/5…
Patreon bonus: Periodical cicadas emerge after 13 or 17 (prime numbers) years
jstor.org/stable/2406585
livescience.com/14238-southern-cicadas-emerge-…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690011
cicadas.uconn.edu
[Butt One More Thing]
Cicada nymph anal liquid is adhesive and mucus-like
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004…
youtube.com/watch?v=B2rax3CKoj8

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