Why Don’t These Cicadas Have Butts

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The fungus Massospora cicadina infects periodical cicadas when they emerge every 13 or 17 years. • Why Are Cicadas So Good At Math? Check out Joe's video over at It's Okay To Be Smart! • Why Are Cicadas So Good At Math? • Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! / gross_science ‖ Tumblr! / grossscience • ↓Want more info?↓ • Angie Macias's “Flying Salt Shakers of Death” article, from the Cornell Mushroom Blog: https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/201... • Massosspora cicadina as a cicaca STD, from University of Maryland College Park Professor Michael Raupp: http://bugoftheweek.com/blog/2013/6/1... • An excellent review of all thing periodical cicada, fungal details on page 279: http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/pro... • For more on the fungus and its spores, see this study from Dr. Kimberly Smith’s lab (sorry, it’s behind a paywall) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/..., and this one (also behind a paywall) by JoAnn White and Monte Lloyd: http://ee.oxfordjournals.org/content/... • And here are some details about how these insects die: http://cavern.uark.edu/~fstephen/new/... • -- • Host, Animator, Editor • Anna Rothschild • Writer, DP, Sound • Rachel Becker • Many thanks to: • Dr. Chris Simon (http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/pro... ) • Dr. Michael J. Raupp (http://bugoftheweek.com/thebugguy/) • Dr. Kimberly G. Smith (http://biology.uark.edu/1403.php) • Rag Tag Rag • Music Provided by APM • Images and Video • Cicada photographs and footage • Michael J. Raupp, Professor at University of Maryland College Park • via bugoftheweek.com/ • Magicicada young • Wikimedia Commons/Arthur D. Guilani • SFX • Cockroaches • Freesound/StateAardvark • (used with permission from author) • Squeak Pack/squeak_10 • Freesound/Corsica_S • A Magicicada chorus containing M. septendecim, M. cassini, and M. septendecula. • Wikimedia Commons/Audio S4 from Fontaine K, Cooley J, Simon C (2007). “Evidence for Paternal Leakage in Hybrid Periodical Cicadas (Hemiptera: Magicicada spp.)” PLoS ONE. • Produced by WGBH for PBS Digital Studios

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