(14 Jun 2024)
US CICADAS

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cincinnati, Ohio – 11 May 2024

1. Close of cicada joining another cicada on a twig

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cincinnati, Ohio - 21 May 2024

2. Medium of Gene Kritsky holding periodical cicada specimens
3. Close of periodical cicada specimens in box
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kritsky, cicada expert:
“There's a lot of things in the world today to get freaked out about. Cicadas aren't one of them. But what I love about cicadas is that, first of all, to me, they're beautiful insects. They've got these red eyes, black bodies, orange coloured veins on these membranous wings. I love the way they come out in these big numbers. I like that I can predict when they come out. It's a scientific experiment every time.”

5. Close tilt down on cicada specimens

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cincinnati, Ohio - 21 May 2024

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kritsky, cicada expert:
“When they come out, they emerge in these massive numbers. Their whole survival strategy is to come out in such large numbers that all the available predators can eat all the cicadas they want and there's still millions left and the predators get sick of eating them.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Charleston, Illinois – 11 May 2024

7. Cicadas climbing up bark on tree
8. Profile of cicada climbing up tree

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Charleston, Illinois – 17 May 2024

9. Light shining on cicadas climbing up tree at night

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Charleston, Illinois – 20 May 2024

10. Cicadas climbing up tree at night

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cincinnati, Ohio - 21 May 2024

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kritsky, cicada expert:
“When periodical cicadas emerge, during that night of their emergence, when they’re climbing up trees and they’re getting out of their nymphal skin and turning into an adult, they don't sing for another five days. So when you walk out in the morning and you see all these empty cicada shells all around it, and it's deathly quiet. But then five days later, you'll start hearing weak chorusing. And then day four, you'll hear individual sound calls. But then every day thereafter, those first ones that emerge and the ones that emerge on day two and day three and day four, and by the time a week goes by, it's getting pretty loud.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Charleston, Illinois – 18 May 2024

12. Various of cicadas in grass at night

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cincinnati, Ohio - 21 May 2024

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kritsky, cicada expert:
“Periodical cicadas are insects of climate. And we have two manifestations to suggest climate change is having an impact. The obvious one is they're emerging earlier in the spring than they used to.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Charleston, Illinois – 19 May 2024

14. Cicadas shedding their skin

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Charleston, Illinois – 20 May 2024

15. Cicada emerging from its shell

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cincinnati, Ohio - 21 May 2024

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kritsky, cicada expert:
“The second impact of climate change for long term is it will cause more accelerations – these four year off cycles – and we've seen several of those.”

17. Medium of Gene Kritsky looking up into trees
18. Wide of tree leaves
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kritsky, cicada expert:

20. Various of periodical cicada specimens in a box

LEADIN:

People in eastern US states are witnessing a natural phenomenon which scientists say hasn't been seen for over two centuries.

It's the mass arrival of hundreds of millions of the red eyed periodical cicadas, which only appear in 13 or 17 year cycles.

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