North American cicadas have life cycles that last for prime numbers of years. Why 13 or 17 years? Why not 12, 14, 15 or 16? One explanation asks us to imagine the cicadas are hunted by periodical ...
Summer means a lot of things: hot weather, long nights and loud cicadas. And those noisy insects seem to be turning up the decibels this year. You’re not alone in thinking the cicadas are louder ...
Trillions of cicadas emerged last May in a double-brood event that hasn’t happened in more than 200 years, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Many of them may become infected ...
Loud as aeroplanes and the sound of summer, the buzz of cicadas are part of the Australian summer. But they're louder than usual this year. Along with summer comes cicada season. But this year ...
Summer means a lot of things: hot weather, long nights and loud cicadas. But are those noisy insects turning up the decibels this year? You’re not alone in thinking the cicadas are louder than ...