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To celebrate cicadageddon 2024, here's one of my favorite past episodes, this one on cicadapocalypse 2021: BROOD X has been waiting 17 years to emerge from the ground. What is Brood X? Should we panic? Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: How is it fair that swarms of baby turtles are considered cute, but swarms of bugs are considered “horrifying?”
Guest: Mara Wilson
Footnotes:
Cicada
https://live.staticflickr.com/3067/2607912292_150e08400e_z.jpg
Cicada tymbal
https://www.cicadamania.com/images/tymbalanism.gif
Cicada sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJ6DL_1R9I
Holes left by mass cicada emergence (warning for trypophobia)
https://plant-pest-advisory.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/A-e1373044330806.jpg
Lots of cicadas!
https://mk0charlottestopdskr.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cicadas-swarm-north-carolina.jpg
Mass sea turtle hatching!
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/olive-ridley-sea-turtle-swarm-filmed-costa-rica
Giant river turtle!
https://zooinstitutes.com/img/animals/83/831567514683_33.jpg
Mass river turtle hatching!
https://www.treehugger.com/rare-turtles-hatch-beach-brazil-5092340
Soft coral
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/84bPOAlpoBNPmyhMTsbhJ-iF7UDOo1lCST_18GrEChIqlOg6CL-nO1yx_6AVw8g2FWgRFAndhaD3HAUw_zMrVDbbNGYQS2Uqob1196fcVrNv7bveRZTylg03CdBwB3BCnpQ
Stony coral
https://www.ecomagazine.com/images/Newsletter/0_2020/Week_1-6-20/underwater-photography-of-coral-reef-3100361.jpg
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To celebrate cicadageddon 2024, here's one of my favorite past episodes, this one on cicadapocalypse 2021: BROOD X has been waiting 17 years to emerge from the ground. What is Brood X? Should we panic? Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: How is it fair that swarms of baby turtles are considered cute, but swarms of bugs are considered “horrifying?”
Guest: Mara Wilson
Footnotes:
Cicada
https://live.staticflickr.com/3067/2607912292_150e08400e_z.jpg
Cicada tymbal
https://www.cicadamania.com/images/tymbalanism.gif
Cicada sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJ6DL_1R9I
Holes left by mass cicada emergence (warning for trypophobia)
https://plant-pest-advisory.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/A-e1373044330806.jpg
Lots of cicadas!
https://mk0charlottestopdskr.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cicadas-swarm-north-carolina.jpg
Mass sea turtle hatching!
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/olive-ridley-sea-turtle-swarm-filmed-costa-rica
Giant river turtle!
https://zooinstitutes.com/img/animals/83/831567514683_33.jpg
Mass river turtle hatching!
https://www.treehugger.com/rare-turtles-hatch-beach-brazil-5092340
Soft coral
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/84bPOAlpoBNPmyhMTsbhJ-iF7UDOo1lCST_18GrEChIqlOg6CL-nO1yx_6AVw8g2FWgRFAndhaD3HAUw_zMrVDbbNGYQS2Uqob1196fcVrNv7bveRZTylg03CdBwB3BCnpQ
Stony coral
https://www.ecomagazine.com/images/Newsletter/0_2020/Week_1-6-20/underwater-photography-of-coral-reef-3100361.jpg
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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