To some folks, the buzz may be loud and different, but to cicadas, it is a party that is 17 years in the making.
Cody Banks, project manager for Shirley Heinze Land Trust, takes a group through Meadowbrook Nature Preserve on Saturday for Cicadapalooza.
“Here we are asking people to be creative and make a cicada collage while learning about the body parts,” said Sarah Pavlovic, a volunteer naturalist with Shirley Heinze. “They can learn that the cicada has a head, a thorax, an abdomen and two pairs of wings.” “The boys are screaming, they are calling for the females,” said Cody Banks, program director for Shirley Heinze Land Trust. “A male screams, the female goes and selects whoever they are mating with.
“When those eggs hatch, they will fall, and the tiny little babies will dig into the ground where they will live for the next 17 years,” said Banks. “They have crab-like claws that are really effective at digging.” “Their wings go in and out super fast, tens of thousands of times a second, and that is how they make their noise,” said Banks. “These spots are called tymbals, a white spot that wiggles near their wings and makes them move that fast.”
“I think the periodical cicadas, much like the solar eclipse and northern lights from earlier this year, are an important reminder to enjoy all the beautiful things in nature, even, especially, if they’re short-lived,” said Mari Patis, programs coordinator for Shirley Heinze Land Trust.
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