#cicadas — Public Fediverse posts

A recently-emerged cicada, resting on a honeysuckle stem.

#bugs #hemiptera #Cicadas #insects #photography

A recently-emerged cicada, resting on a honeysuckle stem.

#bugs #hemiptera #Cicadas #insects #photography

A recently-emerged cicada, resting on a honeysuckle stem.

#bugs #hemiptera #Cicadas #insects #photography

A recently-emerged cicada, resting on a honeysuckle stem.

#bugs #hemiptera #Cicadas #insects #photography

A recently-emerged cicada, resting on a honeysuckle stem.

#bugs #hemiptera #Cicadas #insects #photography

We apologize for the 2 technical difficulties that we had over the course of our 24 hour Indigenous Gulf Stream that interrupted the visions of two of our amazing artists. We have suspicions around why this has happened... We have early premiered their videos on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@bvlbanchapublicaccess

#IndigenousGulf #IndigenousCreatives #Indigenous #Louisiana #Bulbancha #cicadas #CicadaConspiracy #TwitchTV #TwitchStream @noladon

https://www.gotorola.com/338139/ 【HEALING BGM】“HIGURASHI cicadas” CHORUS #healing #relaxing #nature #ひぐらし#癒し#冷感#COOL ##PeacefulMoments ##RelaxingVideos ##StressRelief #cicadas #Entertainment #Healing #meditation #music #Relaxation #summer #エンタメ #ひぐらし #松尾太陽 #癒し #音楽

What’s That Splatter on Your Windshield?

via Rebekah McClean Kersplat … thwack … thunk … wham! There’s nothing quite like a summer road trip…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Bees #Beetles #BiologyandBiochemistry #ButterfliesandMoths #Cicadas(Insects) #Insects #RoadTrips #Summerseason
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/31058/

What’s That Splatter on Your Windshield?

via Rebekah McClean Kersplat … thwack … thunk … wham! There’s nothing quite like a summer road trip…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Bees #Beetles #BiologyandBiochemistry #ButterfliesandMoths #Cicadas(Insects) #Insects #RoadTrips #Summerseason
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/31058/

RAT TAIL SUMMER

This story is dedicated to my friend and döppelganger, Max. 

We were conceived as you all sat under the porchlight in fateful April. 

Someone said: “Guys. This year, it’s gonna be Rat Tail Summer.” 

“Rat Tail Summer?” said another voice. 

“Yeah. We’ll all grow rat tails and have a Rat Tail Summer. You can’t define it! Rat Tail Summer’s a feeling.” 

We shivered with glee and put all our energy into growing! Our time was nigh! 

It was true: None of you knew what Rat Tail Summer truly meant, but we had our ideas, and as you slept that evening, snug in your beds, the wind blowing outside and cold rain lashing, we imagined for you.  

We pushed our dreams into your minds through the bases of your skulls and you dreamed them too. 

In our dream, we were fully grown, reaching past your collars, slender and long. 

We imagined you waking up with drool crust on your lips and walking out on the back porch, bleary eyed, in baggy underwear and construction boots to meet the sun. Cicadas droned as you inhaled the day.  

You drank tepid water at breakfast and toast went cool on your plates, butter soaking and congealing inside as you plotted and figured out your days. 

Your mothers and fathers shook their heads and spoke to one another in hushed voices. 

“Do you think they’re okay?” 

“Okay’s got nothing to do with it. They’ll be 30 soon. It’s time for them to wake up and get a real job.” 

But you didn’t mind for now. Rat Tail Summer necessitated unemployment. Rat Tail Summer was your job. 

In the afternoon, you roved the hot pavement in rowdy packs of bicycles, standing on your pedals, weaving like sidewinders. You monopolized the asphalt, drivers honking their horns, frustrated by your bliss. Who knew a haircut could have this much power? We were like lifelines, tethering you to whatever world you envisioned. 

A quick veer, and you were path-bound, speeding through gnat clouds, past tiger lilies and chicory, and the fog of creek stink. We adorned your necks beautifully, lounging there in the sun, streaming in the breeze, tickling your napes, a reminder of the freedom you’d captured in our pleats. 

When you tired of biking, you luxuriated in the heat, sweating in denim cut-offs and stretched muscle tees. You browned and burned and fell asleep. You gasped awake and drank to bursting, pulling your bikes from the grass to peddle lazily home. 

In the evening, you flung the house’s windows open wide and gathered around bowls of beans and mason jars of flat beer to conspire about spreading the good word: 

“An avantgarde band?”  

“Sure, but we need something with more umph, you know?” 

A rave, we whispered in unison. A rave by the river. 

“I’ve got it!” one of you said, snapping their fingers. “Let’s throw a rave!” 

“That’s perfect,” called another. “A Rat Tail Summer Rave. Perfect!” 

And that’s what you did. 

You dispersed under the cover of night, to stick posters to telephone poles, electrical boxes, and garbage cans. You slipped flyers under doors and whispered your invitations through keyholes and into the tailpipes of parked cars so that when their owners started them in the morning before work, your voices rumbled: 

HAVE YOU HEARD? IT’S RAT TAIL SUMMER! 

Another night, all of you, dozens now, swarmed to the river, slinking in the darkness through the underbrush. You congregated under a bridge scrawled with graffiti and whirled IN deep techno with the fervour and urgency of religion. Eager converts, in oxford shirts and pleated slacks and professional looking dresses, lined up waiting for all their hair but the select few to be shorn, punching their ticket to freedom and ecstasy. 

You basked in the reverberating bass. You pierced your ears with potatoes and ice cubes. You swapped clothes with strangers, regardless of fit, fabric, or gender. You danced with concentration and earnestness. Your faces twisted with honest expression, ugly, and thus beautiful in their ugliness. You started experimental and secretive love affairs, leading each other by linking fingers into the shadows beyond the ring of twisting dancers and firelight.  

And all the while, we were there, dripping sweat down your spines, whispering encouragement, and whipping in the cool night air, hallowing your heads like you were all angels. 

In the morning, you all woke up from our dreams, touching the napes of your necks and finding them bare. All of you were giddy with excitement. April to June? Plenty of time to grow your tails. You reconvened, eager to discuss your visions, eager to spread the word. 

Many of you cut your hair that day, leaving lone curls to be braided. All of you invited friends to enlist. 

As the temperature rose, and we grew in preparation, so did your excitement. 

And then the bubble popped. You disbanded. You got jobs, took trips, fell in love, and moved on. Those of you who grew rat tails snipped them off and offered them to the birds for nesting. Your cut braids unraveled and blew away. 

Rat Tail Summer was a feeling. It was a state of mind. It was the temperature of the soul. 

Rat Tail Summer was exquisitely grimy. 

Rat Tail Summer never happened. 

But the dreams still lived, and they are beautiful. 

#breakfast #cicadas #collars #doppelganger #friend #glee #max #ratTailSummer #shortStory #slender #Summer #toast #twinlessTwins

A Cicada, Purana ubina, spotted at the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Singapore on 1 Jan 2025. Maybe one of the less common local cicadas; I was attracted by the song it made (of course), which was different from the usual cicada song I hear.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256984928 ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #TrueBugs #Hemiptera #Cicadas #Cicadoidea

Ancient #cicada wings evolved to deal with evolutionary changes in birds https://phys.org/news/2024-10-ancient-cicada-wings-evolved-evolutionary.html

Enhanced flight performance and adaptive #evolution of #Mesozoic giant cicadas https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr2201

"in their earlier years, #cicadas typically had wingspans similar to modern butterflies... But over the course of approximately 160 million years, the wings across all species began to grow a little wider even as they became slimmer... to fly up to 39% faster"

Explosion of cicada-eating mites has the state of Illinois scratching - Enlarge / A cicada from a 17-year cicada brood clings to a tree on May ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2043885 #itchmites #outbreak #science #cicadas #health #mites #rash #cdc

#acusmatic #electronic #music #tribute to #Russolo #futuristic

#rain #fire #thunder #cicadas #theos #God #world #universe #solina #strings #percussion #taiko #puredata #pd #pure-data #classical #diva #u-he #lux #FOSS #music #creativetoots #mondaymotivation
#bandcamp #discount #electronicmusic #fedimusic #Fediverse #mastomusic #mastodon #contemporary #experimentalmusic #experimental

@electronicmusic

https://elijax.bandcamp.com/album/attraverso

Dog-day cicada (𝘕𝘦𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴) with molted nymph exoskeleton, from August 2019:

#InsectThursday #cicadas #DogDayCicada #insects #LifeCycle #exoskeleton #molting

@Tooden Um... Not a good example... (Despite what the media and tourism wants you to think.)

Genetic and ecological studies of animals in #Chernobyl and #Fukushima

by Timothy A Mousseau, Anders P Møller

2014 Sep-Oct

"Recent advances in genetic and ecological studies of wild animal populations in Chernobyl and Fukushima have demonstrated significant genetic, physiological, developmental, and fitness effects stemming from exposure to #radioactive contaminants. The few genetic studies that have been conducted in Chernobyl generally show elevated rates of #GeneticDamage and #Mutation rates. All major taxonomic groups investigated (i.e., #birds, #bees, #butterflies, #grasshoppers, #dragonflies, #spiders, #mammals) displayed reduced population sizes in highly radioactive parts of the #ChernobylExclusionZone. In #Fukushima, population censuses of birds, butterflies, and #cicadas suggested that abundances were negatively impacted by exposure to radioactive contaminants, while other groups (e.g., dragonflies, grasshoppers, bees, spiders) showed no significant declines, at least during the first summer following the disaster.

"Insufficient information exists for groups other than insects and birds to assess effects on life history at this time. The differences observed between Fukushima and Chernobyl may reflect the different times of exposure and the significance of multigenerational mutation accumulation in Chernobyl compared to Fukushima. There was considerable variation among taxa in their apparent sensitivity to radiation and this reflects in part life history, physiology, behavior, and evolutionary history. Interestingly, for birds, population declines in Chernobyl can be predicted by historical mitochondrial #DNA base-pair substitution rates that may reflect intrinsic #DNARepair ability."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25124815/

#acusmatic #electronic #music #tribute to #Russolo #futuristic

#rain #fire #thunder #cicadas #theos #God #world #universe #solina #strings #percussion #taiko #puredata #pd #pure-data #classical #diva #u-he #lux #FOSS #music #creativetoots #silentsunday
#bandcamp #electronicmusic #fedimusic #Fediverse #mastomusic #mastodon #contemporary #experimentalmusic #experimental

@electronicmusic

https://elijax.bandcamp.com/album/attraverso

🦗The Buzz on Cicadas: Sexuality and Sensationalism 🐛
Billions of cicadas emerge, but headlines focus on "gay zombie cicadas" and a "creepy fungus." Let's set the record straight and discuss how we talk about wildlife. 🦠🌈🐜

🔗 https://blog.nwf.org/2024/05/the-buzz-on-cicadas-sexuality-and-sensationalism/

#Cicadas #Sensationalism #Science #LGBTQ+ #NatureMatter

West Virginia University mycology professor Matt Kasson is tracking a fungus called Massospora cicadina. It is the only one on Earth that makes amphetamine in a critter when it takes over. This fungus takes control over the cicadas, making them hypersexual, looking to spread the parasite as a sexually transmitted disease, NBC News reports:
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/zombie-cicadas-controlled-fungus-sex-crazed-rcna157956

#Fungus #Parasite #Zombie #Cicadas #Amphetamine

#zajimavost #science #spund #slowmo #cicadas

Smarter Every Day - Actual Clickbait - Smarter Every Day 299

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWc48iVC8u8

#Medicalexperts believe the worm that burrowed into #RFKJr.’s brain is a pork #tapeworm larva, #NikkiHaley took over 20% of the #GOP #primaryvote in #Indiana, a live-action video explaining #cicadas has gone viral, and #NewYork governor #KathyHochul made a terrible comment about her constituents in #TheBronx.

#Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tjr1wluB9A

#Cicadas rising: A visual guide to #2024’s rare dual appearance
The cicadas are coming. This year is unique, because there are two #broods that are arriving at the same time in the midwestern and southeastern #UnitedStates. Usually it’s just one at a time. CNN has a visual guide for where the cicadas will be and why they’re here now. Basically, one brood emerges every 13 years and the other every 17, and there’s overlap.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/04/us/periodical-cicada-2024-visual-guide-scn-dg/

the #cicadas right now sound like the #Langoliers are coming.

#SummerSounds
#StephenKing

Articles like this make me warm to a plant based diet.

Can You Eat Cicadas? | TIME

https://time.com/6968973/cicadas-food-how-to-catch-clean-cook-eat/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

#Entomophagy #Food #Diet #Insects #Cicadas #PlantBasedDiet

oh god, oh god. this is yet another reason why i love living in the western US. #Cicadas #Incessant

Where billions of cicadas will emerge this spring (and over the next decade), in one map https://www.vox.com/science/24047261/cicada-brood-xix-xiii-19-13-map

#acusmatic #electronic #music #tribute to #Russolo #futuristic

#rain #fire #thunder #cicadas #theos #God #world #universe #solina #strings #percussion #taiko #puredata #pd #pure-data #classical #diva #u-he #lux #FOSS #music #creativetoots #mondaymotivation
#bandcamp #discount #electronicmusic #fedimusic #Fediverse #mastomusic #mastodon #contemporary #experimentalmusic #experimental

@electronicmusic

https://elijax.bandcamp.com/album/attraverso

#acusmatic #electronic #music #tribute to #Russolo #futuristic

#rain #fire #thunder #cicadas #theos #God #world #universe #solina #strings #percussion #taiko #puredata #pd #pure-data #classical #diva #u-he #lux #FOSS #music #creativetoots #silentsunday
#bandcamp #BandcampFriday #discount #electronicmusic #fedimusic #Fediverse #mastomusic #mastodon #contemporary #experimentalmusic #experimental

@electronicmusic

https://elijax.bandcamp.com/album/attraverso

#acusmatic #electronic #music #tribute to #Russolo #futuristic

#rain #fire #thunder #cicadas #theos #God #world #universe #solina #strings #percussion #taiko #puredata #pd #pure-data #classical #diva #u-he #lux #FOSS #music #creativetoots #silentsunday
#bandcamp #BandcampFriday #discount #electronicmusic #fedimusic #Fediverse #mastomusic #mastodon #contemporary #experimentalmusic #experimental

@electronicmusic

https://elijax.bandcamp.com/album/attraverso

@Softwaremerc
🥥 It might just be me, but I think #cicadas look like ordinary #HouseFlies that have been exposed to #NuclearRadiation. 🥥

#Cicadas could hold the secret to #selfcleaning surfaces – new study
https://theconversation.com/cicadas-could-hold-the-secret-to-self-cleaning-surfaces-new-study-207435

#Cicadas could hold the secret to #selfcleaning surfaces – new study
https://theconversation.com/cicadas-could-hold-the-secret-to-self-cleaning-surfaces-new-study-207435

#Cicadas could hold the secret to #selfcleaning surfaces – new study
https://theconversation.com/cicadas-could-hold-the-secret-to-self-cleaning-surfaces-new-study-207435

#Cicadas could hold the secret to #selfcleaning surfaces – new study
https://theconversation.com/cicadas-could-hold-the-secret-to-self-cleaning-surfaces-new-study-207435

Coming out of my shell.
#Photography #Insects #Cicadas #BugPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography

Turns out that day-calling #crickets (as opposed to night-calling species) tune their #chirps to avoid the same #bandwidth as other nosy #insects (like #cicadas). We know #birds do this type of thing ("#acoustic #niche partitioning"). Interesting to see it in insects.

Title: The #circadian calling activity of a lebinthine cricket with high-frequency calls is unaffected by cicada choruses in the day

Link: https://peerj.com/articles/14641/

#Introduction Fan of #literature, #cats, #fireplaces, #wingback chairs, #foggyhorizons. Roles: editor, freelance writer, researcher. Trader. Layabout (although not a #wastrel). #humour, #humor. Live by a Great Lake. Surrounded by #trees and #cicadas. Absorbed the ruminations of McLuhan at U of T. “There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”

MASS PSYCHOGENIC ILLNESS

Learning about the #hysterics surrounding #HavanaSyndrome, and how corporate media, #CIA and govt united behind a #narrative for years (#post2016) without any scientific basis, that #theRussians were using targetted noise to make #USEmbassy workers sick.

…when the noise was just #cicadas.

Oh dear!

#MPI #massPsychogenicIllness #paranoia #hysteria #corporateMedia #corporateState #antiScience #science

Helps make it feel like we’ve turned some sort of corner.

Of course the segment was about the coming plague of locusts…

#cicadas #coronavirus #locusts #plagues

https://boffosocko.com/2021/04/27/55790651/