Cicada
by Kristin Elmquist
Title
Cicada
Artist
Kristin Elmquist
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Photograph
Description
One exclusively North American genus, Magicicada (the periodical cicadas), which spend most of their lives as underground nymphs, emerge in predictable intervals of 13 or 17 years, depending on the species and the location. The unusual duration and synchronization of their emergence may reduce the number of cicadas lost to predation, both by making them a less reliably available prey (so that any predator that evolved to depend on cicadas for sustenance might starve waiting for their emergence), and by emerging in such huge numbers that they will sate any remaining predators before losing enough of their number to threaten their survival as a species.
The annual cicadas are species that emerge every year. Though these cicadas' life cycles can vary from 1-9 or more years as underground larvae, their emergence above ground as adults is not synchronized, so some members of each species appear every year.
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May 29th, 2021
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