Episode 33: THE MYSTERIOUS LIFE CYCLE OF CICADAS
Kat, Jen, and Christina are talking bugs this week. BIG bugs… BIG bugs that hatch in the billions every 17 years. We discuss Brood X, CICADAS!
The swarming of cicadas feels like the fuel of horror movies. This is the real story behind our insect friends.
Thanks Kevin Necessary for the use of his Cicada Cartoons.
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Sources:
https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/beware-the-squirrel-pie-cincinnatis-long-history-with-cicadas/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Henry_Turner_(zoologist)#Academic_career
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-benjamin-banneker-black-scientist-who-documented-brood-x-cicadas-late-1700s-180977676/
https://www.msj.edu/news/2021/04/17-year-cicadas-emerging-in-early-may.html
Video Clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exm-ZG8-Ogk&t=35s (first minute, President Reagan references cicadas in 1987.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfEVAABIpAQ (snappy tomato pizza cicada jingle 1987)
https://www.wlwt.com/article/archives-what-cincinnati-s-cicada-emergence-looked-like-in-2004/36480719 (2004 “Cicada Mania”)
The Parrots of Green-Wood Cemetery: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green-Wood_Cemetery_parrots_(54862).webm
How did a flock of Argentinian parrots land in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery?
https://www.6sqft.com/how-did-a-group-of-argentinian-parrots-land-in-green-wood-cemetery/
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