Image description: Dr. Gene Kritsky stands in his office with his arms folded across his chest. He has silver hair and beard, and is wearing a blue plaid short-sleeved shirt and round framed glasses.

They are numerous. They are patient. They are COMING for the United States in droves this spring: They are cicadas. *The* Cicada guy Dr. Gene Kritsky joins to chat all about the annual cicadas you may see every summer vs. the periodical ones that cycle through the states in different broods in giant numbers. Learn how they survive underground for decades, what they are doing down there, all about their lifecycle, who eats them and why, plus get inspired to take a cicada safari, download Cicada Safari, and appreciate their sexually desperate songs, which can be as loud as an ambulance. By the end, you’ll want to don a bug costume and hitch hike to the Midwest. (Don’t do that.)

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Transcript

Dr. Gene Kritsky’s new cicada book: Periodical Cicadas: The Brood X Edition

Download the Cicada Safari app at the Apple Store or Google Play Store.

Gene’s website: genekritsky.com

Also see CicadaMania.com, and follow Instagram.com/CicadaMania

A donation was made to Mount Saint Joseph’s cicada research in the School of Behavioral and Natural Sciences

Sponsor links: www.alieward.com/ologies-sponsors

Gene’s wonderful wife Jessee J. Smith is a silversmith who makes bug jewelry and other beautiful things for her business Silverspot Metalworks. Check it out!

More links you may find of interest:

United States periodical cicadas: where’s your closet brood?

Entomophagy Anthropology: Eating bugs!

How loud are different noises?

Cooking cicadas?

Gardening and cicadas

Cicada drinking and peeing!

Cicada pee via CicadaMania.com

Annual cicada (green grocer) emerging from its pupal case

Onondag Nation’s relationship with cicadas

Songs about cicadas via CicadaMania.com

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