Cicadas here! Cicadas there! Cicadas are gonna be everywhere!

01/30/24 • 21 min

Every 13 years in the Southeast and parts of the Midwest, countless cicadas rise out of the ground and breed. The spring and summer of 2024 marks the thirteenth year since the cicada brood known as brood XIX’s last emergence, which means in a few months they’ll be everywhere.
Jonathan talks with Clemson University entomologist Eric Benson about the fascinating lifecycle of what are called “periodical cicadas.”
Benson is going to tell us what we learned about brood XIX when it emerged in 2011, what we can expect when they come out again in 2024, and what citizens can do to help scientists understand this wonder of nature.
SHOW NOTES
Brood XIX
UConn Brood XIX website
Magicicada tredecim 3D models and mating calls

For show notes and additonal resources, visit https://blogs.clemson.edu/earthly/.
Earthly is hosted and produced by Clemson University.

For show notes and additonal resources, visit https://blogs.clemson.edu/earthly/.
Earthly is hosted and produced by Clemson University.

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In this episode of Earthly, Jonathan talks to Steven Long about South Carolina’s fight against invasives.
Long is assistant director of a state program that works with Clemson Cooperative Extension Agents, researchers and other state and federal agencies to battle insects, plants and plant diseases that are already here or are trying their best to get here.
He gives an update on some notorious invaders we’re currently battling, and others that we’re trying to keep out.
SHOW NOTES
Giant African Land Snail
Spotted Lanternfly
Box Tree Moth
Clemson Department of Plant Industry
South Carolina Invasives Reporting Tools

For show notes and additonal resources, visit https://blogs.clemson.edu/earthly/.
Earthly is hosted and produced by Clemson University.

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Jonathan's guest on Earthly, continues in that tradition. Todd Anderson collaborates with scientists and travels to some of the world’s most remote environments to see what they see only with the eye of an artist. Then Anderson creates prints using woodcuts to capture moments in time as landscapes are altered by rising temperatures.
Anderson is going to tell us about his process, inspiration, and what he hopes his art says about the natural world.
SHOW NOTES
Journey to the Ice
Thin Ice
Todd Anderson's Work

For show notes and additonal resources, visit https://blogs.clemson.edu/earthly/.
Earthly is hosted and produced by Clemson University.

Earthly - Cicadas here! Cicadas there! Cicadas are gonna be everywhere!

Transcript

Intro (00:01):

Welcome to Earthly, a Clemson University podcast discussing issues of agriculture, horticulture, nature, and design, impacting the world nation, state of South Carolina and even your home. Here's your host, Jonathan Vet.

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