WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:10.640 Welcome this Tuesday afternoon at the Tri States Baseball kicks 2 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.320 off tonight about six oh five with Lance mcgallis of 3 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:15.080 the Reds. In the last ten games are the best 4 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:17.960 record in the Central Division in baseball. The Twinkies are 5 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.160 in town for three. Then we'll see what happens there 6 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:22.800 is the Reds drive toward the All Star breaking more 7 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:25.800 plus later on today at two oh five, it is 8 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:28.879 alleged that Prosecutor County Pillage is going to hold a 9 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:31.079 news conference to determine whether or not there should be 10 00:00:31.239 --> 00:00:34.759 criminal charges and the shooting of Ryan Hinton, that eighteen 11 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:37.640 year old boy who was shot having stolen a vehicle 12 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:39.799 and had a gun in his hand, ran away. There's 13 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:43.240 speculation whether the prosecutor's office here in Hamlet County will 14 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:45.640 indict or not. And now that's going to be announced 15 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:47.920 sometime after two o'clock today. We're going to cover it 16 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.759 for you live, I believe, according to Tony benderho's putting 17 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:53.840 his qualifications and credibility on the line saying we will 18 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.600 broadcast it live sometime after two o'clock as it begins. 19 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.560 But until then, there's more important matters, which are cicadas. 20 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.439 Cicadas and cicadas, And I think we all can agree 21 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.560 world to recognize renowned expert on cicadas's professor gen Kritsky, 22 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:11.439 recently retired from Mount Saint Joe, who's written at least 23 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.480 five books on the subject, and where do they come from? 24 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:17.640 Why are they here? Et cetera. Professor Kritsky, welcome again 25 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:20.159 to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, Professor, 26 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:24.159 how many years have you spent studying cicadas? 27 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:26.359 Oh, I'm at fifty one years though. 28 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:30.560 How many books have you written on the subject of cicadas. 29 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:33.400 I've written five books on them, I have another one planned, 30 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:37.519 and I've written probably about a dozen research publications. And 31 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:39.640 you and I have been talking about cicadas for thirty 32 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:40.120 eight years. 33 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.280 Now, Well, do we have time to do it in 34 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:45.599 seventeen years from now? What do you think I'm going 35 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:48.680 to try? I'll try to then, thirty eight years ago 36 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.359 we started with cicadas. At that point, once you're at 37 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:52.879 Mount Saint Joe, Am I correct about that? 38 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:58.239 I was? I I working on that interview in the studio. 39 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:00.760 That's so we don't do that much anymore. But that's 40 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:05.799 a different issue. Professor Krisky, tell me what is the cicada. Basically, 41 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:07.879 what is the cicada? And then we'll get onto more 42 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:10.439 particular issues. What is a cicada? 43 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.759 Well, we're talking about the periodical cicadas. The cicadas are 44 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.400 insects BLO. They're belonging to They're like true bugs. They 45 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:22.800 have a sucking mouth part. They're related to aphids and 46 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.879 stink bugs. But the periodical skaters, the ones that we're 47 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.000 talking about this morning, are these strangers like that have 48 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:32.520 these very long life cycles. And what we're seeing right 49 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:36.759 now is brood fourteen. It's a seventeen year cicada. And 50 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.719 the last time I visited Cincinnati was in two thousand 51 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:40.120 and eight. 52 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:43.360 How many different broods are there? Because every now and 53 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.599 then you get a little bit of minor eruptions. Right 54 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:47.680 now there's a major one kind of dying out at 55 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:49.800 this point. How many different broods are there? 56 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:55.520 There are fifteen different broods, twelve different broods of seventeen 57 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:59.479 year skatus and three thirteen year broods. That's the exciting 58 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.039 thing the I discovered in part because if your help 59 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:04.000 helping us get the word out there, we have a 60 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:07.159 thirteen year cicada in Ohio. It's brewed twenty two, and 61 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:08.919 it'll emerge in twenty twenty seven. 62 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:11.919 So in twenty twenty seven we may do this again. 63 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:15.520 Well, it's going to be mostly in Brown and Claremont 64 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:18.039 County in Ohio and then ten counties in northern Kentucky. 65 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:19.240 But yeah, I'm looking forward to it. 66 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:23.599 Why do cicadas exist? What is the purpose? What is 67 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:27.000 the purpose of life? The purpose of cicada life? Why 68 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:27.759 do they exist? 69 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.439 Well, the purpose of just life in general is to reproduce, 70 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:34.080 But for periodical scad is they do a lot of 71 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.960 good for the ecosystem. For example, when the nymphs come 72 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:40.719 out of the ground those holes. Those holes persist until 73 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:44.039 December and January, and during the hot summer when the 74 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:46.599 ground gets really hard and a range that rain water 75 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:49.479 goes down those holes and helps water the trees. When 76 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:51.800 the adults come out and start flying around their food 77 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.759 for all sorts of opportunity predators, that allows their populations 78 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:59.080 to rebound. When the females lay their eggs in the 79 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.680 terminal growth of trees, it causes them time sometimes that 80 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.680 branch to break. We call it flagging, and that's like 81 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:07.479 a natural pruning. So it looks ugly this year, but 82 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.240 next year there'll be a bigger flower set on those 83 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:13.879 trees that had that davage. And then finally, when that's 84 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.279 all done, both the males and the females die and 85 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:20.480 their carcasses collect the base of trees. Let's got a 86 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:22.720 little bit of dew and rain in June and July 87 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:26.600 and August. Then they'll start to decay and rot. And 88 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:32.399 that is a scent memory. However, all that smells because 89 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:35.920 they're decaying and all those nutrients from their carcasses are 90 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:39.279 going around the trees where the carcasses gathered to nurture 91 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:40.879 that tree for the next seventeen years. 92 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:43.279 Are they harmful to human beings in any way? 93 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.240 No, they're not. They I don't bite, they don't sting, 94 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:50.199 they don't carry disease. They won't even carry away small children. 95 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:55.079 Tom brennanman likes to eat cicadas. I didn't know this 96 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:57.279 till recently, but Tom told me he goes out in 97 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:59.959 his yard and marry Mont often picking up a handful 98 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.279 with cicadas at nine and starts eating them. Is that 99 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:03.000 a good idea? 100 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:08.519 Probably not, because multi for humans eat cicadas, it's more 101 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:11.000 of a of a of a bad They're not a 102 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:14.480 sustainable food source, so you can't have one meal once 103 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:18.680 every seventeen years. But what we're seeing, especially in Merrimont 104 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:23.920 in other areas, is the amount of trees where they're 105 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.199 reproducing us is being declined, has declined. So back for example, 106 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:29.399 that that median strip of Marmont where they removed all 107 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:32.399 those trees in two thousand and eight, replaced two thousand ten, 108 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:36.079 excuse me, and replaced them with the valves. The cicadas 109 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:38.040 didn't merge there this year, but not in the numbers 110 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:41.319 they did back in two thousand and eight. So what 111 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.480 they are telling us looking at the distribution that we're 112 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:49.720 germing with Cicada savari is the impact of deforestation urban 113 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:52.680 development on cicada populations. That sort of gives us a 114 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:56.600 little temperature of what we're doing to our own urban environment. 115 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:59.519 Professor Kritzko, are you saying it's like a genocide against 116 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.199 the cicad when you cut down trees? Because I belong 117 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:05.040 to Kenwic Country Club. We've cut down five hundred trees, 118 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:10.000 magnificent oak and elm and other trees. Is Chemic country 119 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:12.519 Club kind of committing a genocide against the cicadas? 120 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.199 Well, as long as our more cicadas than than the 121 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:19.519 mile of those trees. They will disperse back in not necessarily. 122 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:22.680 It might take fifty one years for them to get 123 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:25.399 back to the same population size that they can disperse 124 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.360 and fly about a mile per emergence. 125 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.879 When does cicadas begin? When to their life cycle? It 126 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.399 was in the eighteenth century that the birth of the 127 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:37.160 christ When did cicadas first emerge? 128 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:42.000 But we know from DNA studies that the genus Magines Cicada, 129 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.480 which is our the periodical scatus, goes back at least 130 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.199 three point ninety five million years and then two and 131 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:51.000 a half million years ago the large species suffering into 132 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:53.319 the small speci, so you have two species dead and 133 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:57.639 then half a million years ago the small species species against. 134 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:01.680 So there's now three distinct species of seventeen year cicadas. 135 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:03.639 So they go back by the bit that the broods 136 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.720 what we're talking about now, they all originated since the 137 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:07.600 last ice. 138 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:10.199 Age, which was about ten thousand years ago. 139 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:13.800 About twenty thousand years ago, the ice sheet was just 140 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.199 north of Tri County Mall. So it's been in the 141 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:19.120 last twenty thousand years that they moved north into the 142 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:23.519 areas where the ice ice sheet was, and as they 143 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:25.319 were doing that, that's when they were going to these 144 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:28.480 usual accelerations and what have you. And that formed all 145 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:29.759 the broods that we see today. 146 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:30.120 You know. 147 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:31.800 And Tony Bender spends a lot of time in the 148 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:34.639 Tri County Mall, which is now closed. He's crying out 149 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:37.000 in front almost every day. But if he would have 150 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.759 been there about twenty thousand years ago and the ice 151 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.160 flow the glacier came from the north Pole and stopped 152 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:45.720 around Try County Mall, if it was at the edge 153 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:48.399 of the Tri County Mall and looked up, how high 154 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.600 was that ice flow? How high was that glacier? 155 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:56.560 I don't recall the actual number offhand, but it was noticeable. 156 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:58.399 It wasn't like a little skim of ice. It was 157 00:07:58.439 --> 00:07:59.879 several meters. 158 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:02.839 And that's why did it stop there? Why didn't it 159 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:04.759 keep going all the way to the High River. It 160 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.160 did stop, and that created the Great Lakes when it 161 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:09.079 when it receded. But why did it stop there? 162 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:12.199 We A lot of that has to do is just uh, 163 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.959 the overall temperatures that were going on and the tobography. 164 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:16.680 Uh. 165 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:19.680 Fortunately, as it's where it stopped, and then I feel 166 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:21.959 further east in the in the Pennsylvania. It didn't stop 167 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:25.199 as far south, so it's all reads the local conditions. 168 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:29.079 But uh that uh uh that had a significant impact 169 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:31.920 on the evolution of cicadas. We were now based on 170 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:35.399 the what you see from uh ecological studies in genetic studies, 171 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:40.159 that warming trend after the ice Age, that that continental 172 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:45.000 warming that occurred actually enhanced the cicadas accelerating by four 173 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:47.039 years in these different gaps, and that's what created the 174 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:47.720 different broods. 175 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:51.879 So, Professor, as far as cicadas, they've been here a 176 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:54.960 long time before human beings are here, and they're going 177 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:57.360 to be here a long time after human beings are gone. 178 00:08:57.399 --> 00:08:57.960 Is that correct? 179 00:08:59.200 --> 00:08:59.679 Probably? 180 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:02.279 So, So the whole life is I get this trait. 181 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.159 The male and the female cicadas are like in the 182 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:08.440 ground beginning about three or four weeks ago, and when 183 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.759 the temperature gets their certain degrees, they say, every seventh 184 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:15.120 how did you know it's seventeen years this Brewe did 185 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:17.360 they ever miss it by a few years and you're 186 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:19.360 in the thirte seventeen years there's no clock. 187 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:23.200 Yeah, we discovered stragglers all the time. And one of 188 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:26.639 the things that we discovered media cicada safari is that 189 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:29.919 a lot of times. Well, for example, in two thousand 190 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.799 and twenty one, when brew teneburged here, in addition to 191 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:36.440 Brewed ten emerging, we had fourteen coming up four years early, 192 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:39.399 we had some, We had some early brewed thirteen cicadas, 193 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:42.440 we had some brewed nineteen. Scats are off cycle. And 194 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:44.919 now that we have the ability with smartphones and all 195 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:48.039 and tens of thousands of people's hands, we're getting some 196 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:50.960 information ut cicadas we never never even dreamed of before. 197 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.000 That's where the sixth book is coming on cicadas. But 198 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:56.639 if you're a normal cicada, believe me, there's derelics all 199 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:58.440 over the place. I see them all the time, in fact, 200 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:00.360 I work with some. But as soon I mean, you're 201 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:03.600 a regular cicada and you're on the ground for seventeen years, 202 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:05.399 how do you know it's time? How do you know 203 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:06.360 it's the seventeenth year? 204 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:10.240 Well, that's a part a subject of a paper which 205 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.960 I'm co author on that's currently in the press. But 206 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:18.039 it turns out they have they count to four and 207 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:19.879 when they after they count to four, they can then 208 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:23.960 molt again, and then they after they've done sixteen there's 209 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:27.600 one more year added on to that. And so for example, 210 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.480 and if we were to dig up cicadas in Mary 211 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:34.639 Mounts and Kenwood in that area and the deer last November, 212 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:37.240 we would have found cicadas in the ground with red 213 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:40.519 eyes as ice turned red the fall before they emerge. 214 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:43.879 And then so they seem to be able to count 215 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.600 these blocks four, but they don't always get that right either, 216 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:51.360 because I've been digging up these things almost every year 217 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:55.360 between emergencies, and they grow at different rates after they're eight. 218 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:57.720 After eight years in the ground, you might find two 219 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:01.759 to three different stages of life sidewise in the ground 220 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:04.440 on the same tree. And so there's a lot that 221 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:07.039 we have to still understand about cicadas. But that's all underground. 222 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.200 So that's a little heart of the study. 223 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:12.840 So these billions of cicadas are there, they wait for 224 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.159 they go through four molts. I'm not sure what a 225 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:18.600 mota is, four molts of four years each underground, and 226 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:21.960 then they add one year. Then it's time to erupt 227 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:25.519 and they come out. Tell me what I guess. There's 228 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:29.679 a male and a female cicada, right, yes, there are. There's 229 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:31.720 no like transgender cicadas nothing like. 230 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:34.159 That, not that we're aware of. 231 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:36.679 Okay, so you got male and female and they come 232 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:39.159 out of the ground together and say it's time to 233 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:41.759 get it on. Is that Is that what happens? 234 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:44.799 That's pretty that's pretty much it. When they come out 235 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:47.600 of the ground there there with it's the last immature 236 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:50.639 stage and that's when they transformed to the adult. That 237 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:52.799 that day they come out of the ground, and they've 238 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:54.960 got about a month on the for the average cicada 239 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:58.879 to to do the business. We get we get ready 240 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.399 to reproduce for the next seventeen years. And so it 241 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:04.840 seems to us, you know, the the adults only above 242 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.759 ground on the average a month each unless they're eaten 243 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:09.919 by a predator, and it takes two weeks for them 244 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:11.120 all to come out of the ground. So that's a 245 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:15.159 six week window that we're seeing right now. And it's 246 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:16.840 it's all about sex. 247 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:20.000 Well I've said that before, but the male and the 248 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.120 female's like it's like they're in heat. They got to 249 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:25.120 get it on quickly because you've been in the third 250 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:28.279 for seventeen years kind of waiting for this moment to arise, 251 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:29.600 and so you're ready to go. 252 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.720 That's pretty much it. And the males gather in large 253 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.240 numbers in trees and they all start singing. They call 254 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:39.879 it a chorusing center. Females hear the singing, they fly 255 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:42.120 into the tree and one thing in the tree. Then 256 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:45.600 they'll respond to an individual male call and if they 257 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.240 are If the male's unsuccessful at getting the notice of 258 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:51.440 a female, he'll fly to another tree or another branch. 259 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:54.440 And if you are out an area with the cicada singing, 260 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:57.120 you'll notice it gets really loud, and then it drops. 261 00:12:57.159 --> 00:12:59.840 The loudness drops a little bit, and then allow it again. 262 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:02.320 That when it drops, that's when the cicadas are flying 263 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:05.120 to another tree or another branch. The male cicatas because 264 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:08.000 they were unsuccessful attracted the attention of a female. 265 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:10.480 Am I going from bar to bar in Witnessville something 266 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:12.080 like that? Do you find the right female in the 267 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:15.279 right leather chaps? 268 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:18.720 That's that's kind of right. These coursing centers, like one 269 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:20.000 giant cicada singles bar. 270 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.080 Well, are they monogamous? Once you find your right cicada 271 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:26.799 with the right kind of configuration? Does the male and 272 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:29.919 female cicadas Marvin Gay, let's get it on. That's kind 273 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:32.679 of it? Or do they get a little bit polyamorous. 274 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.399 Well, it depends. We know that from a racial studies 275 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:41.080 that the typical male cicada will mate eighty five percent 276 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:44.720 of mate once, ten percentle mate twice, and five percent 277 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:45.919 of mate three times. 278 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:49.039 And like married men, something like that. And so the 279 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:52.240 great majority say, I got my woman. That's it. I 280 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:54.519 asked this question. Did they do it like dogs? How 281 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:55.159 do they do it? 282 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:56.759 Well? 283 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:59.559 They actually it's called they. If you can see this 284 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.600 as the sidewalk in the trees right now, they are 285 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:06.000 they genitalia are at tips of the abdomen, and so 286 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:10.519 they often have found tail to tail as they're doing 287 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:11.039 the nasty. 288 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:14.799 All right, now, what the nasty is done? Then what happens? 289 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:16.639 Did they have a cigarette? Hold a glass of wine? 290 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:17.080 What do you do? 291 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:18.440 No? 292 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:22.159 They After a few hours, few days, the female will 293 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:24.919 start to lay her eggs. The male's out of the question. 294 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:28.679 Now the female searches for the terminal end of a 295 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.960 tree branch where she'll lay her eggs. She has them 296 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:36.200 up on average on five hundred eggs to lay. Wow, 297 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.679 And she lays them in batches of twenty to forty 298 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.240 in about a oh maybe a quarter inch to a 299 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.080 half inch to slit in the tree. She's laid that block, 300 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:47.759 she walks about a few another quarter inch to whatever 301 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.159 pierces the branch and lays more eggs and doesn't. And 302 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:53.519 she does that until she either a runs out of 303 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:56.039 eggs or b runs out of branch, and then she 304 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:58.759 flies to another branch and continues the process until she 305 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:01.159 exhaust her egg supply. 306 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:03.879 What happens during the male what's the male during? During 307 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:06.039 this time? Getting with the guys, explaining what's going on? 308 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:08.759 What do the guys do? When the females laying the 309 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:09.240 eggs sit. 310 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:12.840 They they're sort of bubbling around and eventually they'll die. 311 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:16.159 That's the way life is anyway. So and at this point, 312 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:18.480 all right, we're at the end of the cycle. The 313 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:22.440 eggs are there, the female's done. What happens to the female. 314 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:25.559 After she lays her eggs she dies too. 315 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:27.000 Then what happens to the eggs. 316 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:30.159 Well, the eggs will hatch in six to ten weeks. 317 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.320 And when they hatch, they crawl out of the egg 318 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:36.679 nest in the branch and literally drop to the ground. 319 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:38.679 And as soon as they hit the ground, and I've 320 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:42.399 seen this many times, they get underground. Within thirty seconds, 321 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:45.080 the vast majority of them, because they are quite vulnerable 322 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:49.240 to spiders, ants and beetles, which have the feast they 323 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.720 could get to them, and so it's once underground, they'll 324 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:54.399 feed on grassroots for the next few weeks in the fall, 325 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.080 in the in the fall, and then by New Year's 326 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:59.039 Day they're eight to ten inches bowl of the ground, 327 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:01.039 sucking on the tree roots. And that's what will be 328 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:03.399 for the next seventeen here. 329 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:05.679 What kind of life is that? What kind of life 330 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:08.840 sucking on a tree route for seventeen years, waiting for 331 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.559 that moment to come? Well, professor jen Krisky, you're the 332 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:14.039 best there is. Have a title for your new book. 333 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:16.720 Come up with something yet. 334 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:20.320 Well, the current book that's out, it's called the Pillgrim's 335 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:23.320 Promise because the cicadas that are emerging this year were 336 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:26.480 first noticed by the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony in sixteen 337 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:27.120 thirty four. 338 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:30.000 How about that? Well, no one knows more about it 339 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:32.360 than you. How do you pass on your knowledge? Has 340 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:35.080 got to be a professor Jean Chrisky to be here 341 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:37.600 for the rest of this century, maybe the next one. 342 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:39.000 Is there another Jen Kritsky? 343 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:42.039 I certainly hope. So there are a number of people 344 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.000 coming up in the working in entomology that I have 345 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:48.840 that had the interest. Even my wife Jesse's coordinating the 346 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:53.000 Idaturalist project. So we've got a lot of good people 347 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:53.879 following us along. 348 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:56.360 I don't want your information to die with you. May 349 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.600 you live long and prosper. Professor Jen Kritsky. We first 350 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:02.279 did this thirty eight years ago. Let's get together in 351 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.680 seventeen more years and see what happens. 352 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:06.200 Sounds like a plan. 353 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:07.000 I'll be there. 354 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.440 God blessed Jen Kritsky, Cicada King. Thank you once again, 355 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:13.559 Professor gen Kritsky, formerly a Mount Saint Joe, now retired 356 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:17.440 writing books on the sex life of a cicada. Let's 357 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:22.079 continue with more. Bill Cunningham Big announcement after two o'clock 358 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:25.160 and more coming up on news radio seven hundred WW. 359 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:28.599 You know I know more about cicadas than you wanted 360 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:31.599 to know. You know the bruise, you know the life cycle, 361 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:34.839 you know the situation. I can only think of those 362 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:38.680 four cicadas hit the windshield or run over by my car. 363 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:45.160 They've spent seventeen years waiting for some glorious moment of satisfaction, 364 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:49.400 and I destroyed it. And to hear gene Kritsky talk 365 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:51.039 about it and make me feel a little bit guilty 366 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:54.000 that their life cycle is somewhat brief, and I'm not 367 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:56.720 sure I would enjoy. But somehow they're part of nature's plan, 368 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:59.680 part of God's plan. It seems to work. I'll set 369 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:02.039 up to rest of today's big show. After one o'clock today, 370 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:05.000 we're going to have an expert on named JT. Young 371 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:09.880 to talk about National Public radi Radio, NPR, PBS and 372 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:11.799 why in the world do we over the last few 373 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:16.880 years spend billions of dollars of tax moneys supporting guc 374 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:21.960 VXU and PBS billions of dollars over a few years, 375 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.640 when that form of communication, shall we say, is handled 376 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.200 quite well by radio stations like this one and by 377 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:31.640 five hundred cable channels. If you want to watch almost 378 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:35.799 any subject in the world, you have YouTube, you have TikTok, 379 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:40.960 you have Netflix, you have whatever it is. You get 380 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:42.920 whatever you want, whenever you want it, all the time. 381 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:45.920 Why we have to send our hard earned tax dollars 382 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.279 to Washington to have them fun public radio and public 383 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.400 television and twenty twenty five is beyond me. Maybe it 384 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.359 made sense in the nineteen seventies when FM basically did 385 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.559 not exist. But right now it makes no sense at 386 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:02.319 all except for the fact that the great majority of 387 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:05.960 those who who watch and listen to public radio and 388 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:10.559 public television are white liberals, and they send in lots 389 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:13.680 of money to make sure that they have their favorite 390 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:17.200 TV or radio program at your expense. You have the 391 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:19.119 right to listen to me or not listen to me. 392 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:21.440 You have the right to turn me off or turn 393 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.480 me on. You have that right, and it didn't cost 394 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:27.799 you a damn nickel zero. But to listen to v XU, 395 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:32.079 GUC you have to say the taxpayers funding them to 396 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:36.000 the extent collectively of hundreds of millions of dollars every year, 397 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:40.559 and I wish them well. And when the funding goes away, 398 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:45.039 as I think it will, I hope I pray it does, 399 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:48.720 because it makes no sense whatsoever that if the listeners 400 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:50.920 and the viewers want to continue to find that directly, 401 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:54.880