Thursday, 27 May, 2004

brooding x The Lehrer Newshour did a piece on the Cicada's last night (wednesday) the correspondent was talking to a University of Maryland prof. MAGICICADA May 26, 2004. PBS Online Newshour. Jeffery Brown talks to entomologist Mike Raupp (UMD). So the story describes what I hear and see around me pretty closely. Ten Trillion cicadas to brood x alltogether. 100 thousand to a million per acre. My nephews kindergarten class was hatching goslings,my sister Susan reports, they looked cute and fluffy until they encountered some cicadas then they went into a feeding frenzy and startled the 'garteners somewhat. The piece did clear up one thing : there are three different species to brood x each with its own call, this matches the levels of noise I thought I was hearing. The PBS piece has a link to UMD's Cicada page which in turn has a link to a sound bite. This is for the benefit of those who do not live between DC and Ohio who already know what massed cicadas sound like. Addendum: I see Letterman did an Al Cicada joke tonight. I thought of that first, on my own I might add. 11:21:01 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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