Lying on the grass, reading about cicadas. Suddenly, a familiar dog comes by. She licked my ear and lay down next to me. Her name is Sasha. A husky. She has heterochromia and is very nice. We’ve been lying here for about 10 minutes, reading together.
Cicadas are interesting creatures. This year, our periodical cicadas have emerged en masse from the ground and are clumsily flying almost everywhere. Their males scream so loudly that you have to shout over them. It’s said to reach up to 100 dB. How do they all simultaneously understand that after 15-17 years underground, it’s time to emerge? Molecular clocks, set in the same way for all cicadas of the same species in one place. On the year when it’s time for them to emerge from the ground and turn into adult cicadas, the massive exit of larvae is triggered by the soil reaching a certain temperature. As a result, they often synchronize to the hour.
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