Businessman and pastor Ed Moore will be Garland’s newest city council member. “I appreciate all of your support and look forward to sharing in the future.
Weaver also said she planned to make the most of Brood X s re-emergence this summer. I feel like we should embrace it, she said.
Mallory Brooks and her son, Aidan, were also waiting for for the cicada nature walk to begin. When asked if he was excited to learn about and see the cicadas, Aidan had a simple reply: What s that? I just think he s excited to be out of the house, Brooks said with a laugh. Clumsy fliers means cicadas could land on you
Moore, who s been working for the Metro Parks since 2014, said the insects are clumsy fliers. This leads to them being eaten by other other wildlife in the park and also landing on park-goers, she said.
Brood X cicadas begin to show themselves and their sounds at Columbus-area Metro Parks Tim Carlin, The Columbus Dispatch
The late morning air is humid at Highbanks Metro Park. The shade from the large trees provides a slight reprieve from the heat but not much.
Even before a visitor sees a single cicada, the members of Brood X make their presence in the park known.
Their hollow hum reverberates through the trees like a subtle background noise. Their little brown shells line the tree trunks in various clearings and picnic areas, and hundreds of exoskeletons pool around the base of the trees.
NASA is working on a new project to study how space impacts the spine
Nine astronauts on the ISS had been scanned before leaving Earth
Upon returning, scientists will take another scan and compare the two
The team hopes scans will show how much bones hallow while in space
The results could lead to strategies to combat bone and muscle loss in space