Neil Steinberg
This spring, as the billions of cicadas of Brood II crawl out of subterranean bunkers from North Carolina to Connecticut (with a few isolated sightings in Massachusetts), their 17-year biological cycle is setting off a secondary cycle of English-language
What’s most fascinating is that this living organism can produce light (called bioluminescence), which is relatively rare. And they form a beautiful language with light (as opposed to many animals’ languages of sound and scent). What signals are they sending? Let’s explore … Read Next Fa...
LAUREL SYMES: People sometimes describe night-calling insects ascicadas. But typically, cicadas call during the day, and what we're hearing at night are crickets and katydids. Do wind chimes keep squirrels away? Wind chimes can scare away squirrels but only temporarily. The sound created by the...
Some katydids are known to be carnivorous, which means they feed on other insects and small animals. These types of katydids have spines on their legs to help them catch and hold onto their prey. They may consume insects like cicadas and other smaller katydids. ...
One evening while swimming in the pool, we saw fireflies and bats fluttering among the trees. We heard frogs, crickets, cicadas and the very loud mating call of the gecko each day. It was a great opportunity for my niece and nephew to learn about living alongside nature without being scare...
Hidden somewhere in the dark, the cicadas screeched. 5.Alone: Orphaned on the Oceanby Richard Logan, Tere Duperrault ??? Genre: True Crime She really was a female Moses in the bulrushes, a waif cast adrift on the waters who would begin her life all over again, almost from scratch...
An explanation as to why there are no cicadas in my yard while others nearby are overrun wasn't good enough. But NATURE provided the answer.
night, when right after I arrived here, I went outside in the dark, eager to explore my new environs, and a cacophony of crickets and cicadas greeted me. It was a sound I remembered from my childhood, a sound unique to the American South. It's a hot, sticky, invasive sound, not ...
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