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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 05:28:43 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Cicadas are back, but climate change is messing with their body clocks.
CBS News reports: "Cicada watchers used to be able to predict their emergence as easily as astronomers could predict the recent solar eclipse. But that has become more challenging as the cicadas' patterns are changing as warm spring days happen more often."
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1. Cicadas are back, but climate change is messing with their body clocks
  
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  Periodical cicadas used to reliably emerge every 13 or 17 years — but spring arriving sooner interferes with the bugs' internal alarm clocks.

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