periodical cicadas (IMAGE)
Caption
Periodical cicadas—the insects that emerge by the billions every 13 or 17 years and make a racket with their mating calls—are loud enough to be detected through an emerging technology called distributed fiber optic sensing. A new study shows how sensors deployed on the cables bringing high-speed internet to American households could open new pathways for charting populations of these famously ephemeral bugs.
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Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources - Forestry, Bugwood.org
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