Scientists know that bird populations boom about two years after a cicada emergence, and that they decline about two years after that. Does the bounty of food during an emergence year set off a chain of bird population booms and busts that lasts until the next emergence?
I was thinking something Lotka-Volterra-Like, but apparently there's more variables at play.
"The big boy band is going to be cranking up in the next week or two," Raupp said.
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Well, well, well, look who the tide washed up.
I had to go hang out with a pack of animals, way up near a foreign country, with grimly weak lager. It was horrible, but I survived.
Family?
They sure acted that way.
cicadas typically crawl out of the ground in cycles of 13 and 17 years
This one goes to eleven.
"I remember being knocked out by their… their exuberance, their raw power – and their punctuality."
"No one knows who they were, or what they were doing."
"Authorities said… best leave it… unsolved."
"Lawn mower engines and airplanes will actually cause the cicadas to sing louder. They'll basically be competing with that noise," Raupp said.
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Now playing in Maryland: Alien.
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No One Can Hear You Scream
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Wasn't there another hatch since we've been in the 'Ville?
Are we the cause?
Tonight in Tucson craigslist:
Bad Company Tribute Project
AND
John Mellencamp tribute
vs. cicadas. Discuss.
Almost new kids drum set – $100
Sad Company
Have you heard those things? Hell, everybody leaves town.
Scientists know that bird populations boom about two years after a cicada emergence, and that they decline about two years after that. Does the bounty of food during an emergence year set off a chain of bird population booms and busts that lasts until the next emergence?
I was thinking something Lotka-Volterra-Like, but apparently there's more variables at play.
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To get to the other side.
One theory is that they have gotten used to, and now prefer, stale Doritos and half-eaten Big Macs.
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