Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet - Rose Eveleth
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Every 13 or 17 years, billions of cicadas emerge from the ground to molt, mate and die. Adult cicadas only live a few weeks above ground, but you’d be hard pressed to ignore them -- they are extremely loud! Rose Eveleth explains everything you need to know about these noisy insects, admitting that there’s still some things we just don’t understand.
Why do cicadas come out so infrequently?
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- Educator Rose Eveleth
- Director Eli Enigenburg
- Composer Kevin MacLeod
- Narrator Rose Eveleth
