Periodical cicadas may emerge more frequently: report
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The periodical cicadas currently singing across the eastern U.S. may emerge more frequently due to alterations in the insects' life cycles, according to researchers.
According to a video report from Science Magazine, scientists hypothesize that the red-eyed bugs could return again sooner than is "normal." In a November 1988 study published in the scientific journal Nature, ecologists and evolutionary biologists Andrew P. Martin and University of Connecticut professor Chris Simon wrote that in survey populations of both 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas, they found that 13-year cicadas in a large region of central North America were descendants of 17-year cicadas that had "switched their life-cycle length to 13 years."More Related News