Dr. Elias Bonaros, a cardiologist and cicada expert, thought the noise-making insects - which emerge from the ground every 17 years - might not return to his neck of the woods, New York state's Long Island, after very few showed up in 2004
June 11, 2021, 10:39 PMBOHEMIA, N.Y. - Dr. Elias Bonaros, a cardiologist and cicada expert, thought the noise-making insects - which emerge from the ground every 17 years - might not return to his neck of the woods, New York state's Long Island, after very few showed up in 2004.
He was disappointed again in 2004, when small numbers of cicadas were reported. "I went to Ronkonkoma," he recalled. "I drove around here and ... did not hear anything."As Bonaros walked around the preserve on Tuesday, he heard the distant mating call of Brood X cicadas, 1-1/2-inch-long black insects with iridescent wings and bright red eyes.
Billions of Brood X cicadas began emerging last month in 15 states, from Georgia to Washington, D.C., and west to Indiana and Illinois. But none emerged in New York state. Ultimately, he said, scientists didn't really know why the Brood X cicadas were disappearing from Long Island."There's a lot of fragmentation of the environment, a lot of development, which if you pour concrete over a surface, that pretty much kills the nymphs," he said. "The cutting down of trees and development takes their food source away."
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