Sentences with phrase «study cicadas»
They study cicadas belonging to the Cicadettini tribe, a group in which males and females locate each other with a characteristic call - and - response routine.
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«The cicadas are probably affecting the bird populations in some way — after all, many bird populations use the cicadas as food during emergence years — but I do not think that the patterns in this study prove that the cicadas are inducing delayed bird - population changes that occur 13 or 17 years after emergence,» Marshall concludes.
«It's very intriguing, and offers a new explanation for why cicadas wait so long to emerge,» says Richard Karban, an ecologist at the University of California, Davis, who is not involved with the study.
Koenig cites another study that reveals the enormous effect the biomass of cicadas has on the environment.