Insect Communications Intercepted
The Fowler-Finn Lab studies insect communications.
“We hear less than 5% of what insects are saying to one another,” said Kasey Fowler-Finn, PhD, Saint Louis University.
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 answers to many questions about the insect world.
The Fowler-Finn Lab 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,” she said. “They (cicadas) are making noise for the reason most animals make noise which is to find mates.”
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