Insect noise seemed high with cicadas, but we only hear less than 5% of insect communications!
The Fowler-Finn Lab at Saint Louis University studies both broods of cicadas during and after the phenomenon of the 13-year Brood 19 co-emerging with the 17-year Brood 8.
“We study how animals communicate with one another in a changing world,” said Kasey Fowler-Finn, PhD. “They (cicadas) are making noise for the reason most animals make noise which is to find mates.”
The mating call happened to be extremely loud in the region of the double emergence.
The Fowler-Finn Lab is also investigating how cicadas are possibly interfering with the communications of other insects.
“We hear less than 5% of what insects are saying to one another,” she said.
Only the latest technology can intercept it.
“They sound like whales and frogs and birds."
Fowler-Finn is collecting data from different sites in the St. Louis area to find the answers to how cicadas may have disrupted insect communications and what that could mean.
“I think we are going to find something interesting.”
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