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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 20:14:21 JST Ars Technica

   Roar of cicadas was so loud, it was picked up by fiber-optic cables

   Brood X made itself known in a way that could change how we monitor insect populations.

   https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/roar-of-cicadas-was-so-loud-it-was-picked-up-by-fiber-optic-cables/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • Audacity (audacity_punk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 22:42:05 JST Audacity

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     @arstechnica I love insects! They are so cool and this is awesome!

   • Climate Jenny 2.0 (climatejenny@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 23:46:01 JST Climate Jenny 2.0

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     @arstechnica This is awesome! The periodic cicadas are such glorious insects.

   • Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 23:52:18 JST Chancerubbage

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     @arstechnica given the scattered overlapping sometimes coinciding cycles of 13 and 17 broods in often highly regional pockets, I’m not certain one could refer, extrapolate to brood x as a general and huge population nationally or even east coast, outside of the proximity to these sensitive fiber optics near Boston Massachusetts. Most populations in same cycles seem
     to inhabit a biosphere within 300 miles. But I’d need to look at brood maps.

   • Mammoth-Blueberry3847 (oops_thatwasclose@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 01:55:11 JST Mammoth-Blueberry3847

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     @arstechnica They roar apparently.