Cicadas | SciShow Tangents Podcast

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This summer's hottest North American bug is without question, the cicada. They've got everything: neon-colored wing veins, bendy-straw-style exoskeletons, an insatiable thirst for tree goo, and after 17 years of napping, they're bursting out of the ground ready to par-tay!

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[This or That: Cicadas or the Beatles]

https://www.science.org/content/artic...

https://cicadas.uconn.edu/behavior/

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea...

Algorithm to measure song changes over time

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea...

https://www.science.org/content/artic...

Test signals in fiber optic cables

https://entomologytoday.org/2023/12/0...

https://academic.oup.com/jinsectscien...

Female flies responding to songs

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sci...

Eroom’s Law principle related to drug development

https://www.science.org/content/blog-...

https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroom%2...

[Trivia Question]

Bird hunting caterpillars on emergence and non-emergence years

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/241...

[Fact Off]

Brown bears digging up cicada nymphs in Japanese human-planted forests

https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dsp...

https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139...

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wil...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea...

Cicadas pee in a very mammal-like stream

https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...

[Ask the Science Couch]

Cicada sound production using the tymbal, stridulation, or wing impacts

https://link.springer.com/referencewo...

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/a...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/a...

Patreon bonus: Periodical cicadas emerge after 13 or 17 (prime numbers) years

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2406585

https://www.livescience.com/14238-sou...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://cicadas.uconn.edu/

[Butt One More Thing]

Cicada nymph anal liquid is adhesive and mucus-like

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

   • WEIRD!! Cicada transformation  

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