Cicadas emerge in 17-year prime number cycles #Shorts

Did you know? Cicadas emerge in 17-year prime number cycles — Entomology Research, periodical cicada brood studies.

Seventeen years. Underground. Billions of cicadas wake up. They've been living beneath your feet since you were young. Seventeen years underground. As nymphs. Feeding on tree roots. In total darkness. Then the soil warms. They climb up. All at once. Trees. Cars. Sidewalks. Every surface covered. Scientists believe the 17-year cycle is no accident. It's a prime number. If predators come every 2, 3, 4, or 5 years... they rarely sync up. Seventeen years of patience. Mathematics built into their biology. The cicadas don't know math. But they follow it.

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