Cicadas
Nature is full of ingenious tricks in the struggle for life and the perennial battle between predator and prey. This year, billions of Brood X cicadas will emerge and swarm across the eastern United States, something that last happened 17 years ago. The cicada species has evolved this unusual decade-spanning life cycle so that its natural predators cannot anticipate its arrival en-mass, thus increasing the chances of successful breeding before they burrow underground for another 17-year hibernation. This is what Darwin meant by survival of the fittest; it’s not the strongest that survive, it’s those that adapt most creatively.
— Wayne Visser
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