{"id":36578,"date":"2013-05-13T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=36578"},"modified":"2013-05-09T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:49:17","slug":"cicada-song-at-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/05\/around-the-garden\/cicada-song-at-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Song at the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cicada_900x900-232x232\"<\/a>In case you haven’t heard: The cicadas are coming<\/a>! The cicadas are coming<\/a>! To New York City at least, where they haven’t been seen, en masse, since 1996. Cicadas of the Brood II type hibernate underground for 17 years, waiting for the soil to warm to a balmy 64\u00b0F before emerging in the millions to mate. Then, they disappear again for another 17 years. We haven’t seen, or heard, them yet at the Garden, but there have been scattered sightings<\/a> throughout the greater New York City area.<\/p>\n

And it turns out, cicadas have not only a sense of rhythm<\/a>, but also a sense of timing and will have emerged in time for the World Science Festival<\/a>! We’ll be celebrating with a special Festival program on June 1, Cicada Serenades: Music, Mating, and Meaning<\/a>. The panel will be moderated by ABC News’ Good Morning America co-anchor Dan Harris<\/a>, and will feature musician, philosopher, and author David Rothenberg<\/a> (recently featured on WNYC’s SoundCheck<\/a>); environmental scientist John Cooley<\/a>; professor and neurobiologist Ronald Hoy<\/a>; and author, biologist, and professor Marlene Zuk<\/a>. Discussion of the cicada’s song, mating rituals, and scientific importance will be punctuated by a “musical performance between the bugs and their human collaborators.”<\/p>\n

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