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Smologies #43: CICADAS with Gene Kritsky

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Timekeeping Abilities of Cicadas

Exploring how cicadas use fluid flow changes to track time, including the impact of climate change on their hibernation cycles and the challenges they face in reproduction and predation. Insights on the emergence patterns of cicadas every 17 years and the establishment of a new population in Cincinnati, alongside historical extinctions of certain cicada broods and the need for population monitoring.

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