I would suspect Sir Newton would have something to do with thatHow do the eggs get back down to the ground after they hatch?
I'm pretty sure they hatch on the tree and migrate down the tree and into the soil as larvae to begin their 17 year cycle.Should I net all my trees? How do the eggs get back down to the ground after they hatch?
I think that guy has been dead a while, not sure he has any agency in the matter.Gorgeous animals!
I would suspect Sir Newton would have something to do with that
Isn't he the reason why things fall from trees to the ground though?I think that guy has been dead a while, not sure he has any agency in the matter.
lol, and there I was hoping to have a chance to see this in real life one day! Missed it by a few months in Australia once.Ewww, yuck. Will plan never to visit north america when these are around.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadasBoth males and females can mate multiple times, although most females seem to mate only once. After mating, the female cuts V-shaped slits in the bark of young twigs and lays about 20 eggs in each, for a total clutch of 600 or more. After about 6–10 weeks, the eggs hatch and the nymphs drop to the ground, where they burrow and begin another 13- or 17-year cycle.
I wonder how many millions were funneled into that important study....Just read this crazy NPR story about this fungus that infects Cicadas. Their genitals fall off and they get really horny while high off of the amphetamine it produces. Alternatively, they go on a psilocybin trip. Mother Nature is weird!
A Fungus Is Pushing Cicada Sex Into Hyperdrive And Leaving Them Dismembered
A fungus called Massospora produces an amphetamine in some cicadas and makes them lose control. Cicadas that are infected lose their genitals — and they don't even notice.www.npr.org
I’m not to far from university of Maryland in the middle of brood X in a neighborhood that was developed back in the late ‘40s. We are seeing a lot of them. This morning when I woke up you could hear the cicada chorus clearly from inside the house.Cicadas....this is interesting. How many? If you see one.....there’s probably many, many more you don't see.
“In maybe a third of a square foot of dirt, the University of Maryland entomologists find at least seven cicadas -- a rate just shy of a million per acre. A nearby yard yielded a rate closer to 1.5 million.
And there's much more afoot. Trillions of the red-eyed black bugs are coming, scientists say.
Within days, a couple weeks at most, the cicadas of Brood X (the X is the Roman numeral for 10) will emerge after 17 years underground. There are many broods of periodic cicadas that appear on rigid schedules in different years, but this is one of the largest and most noticeable. They’ll be in 15 states from Indiana to Georgia to New York; they’re coming out now in mass numbers in Tennessee and North Carolina.”