Jon Sullivan on Nostr: There was a news story on #RNZ this week about people in #NewZealand hearing fewer ...
There was a news story on #RNZ this week about people in #NewZealand hearing fewer cicada calls this summer. I've been monitoring cicadas alongside the other species I regularly count, and I had a quick look at my data for January each year.
While January hasn't finished yet, around Ōtautahi-Christchurch 2024 has had fewer cicada calls than normal. As Ruud Kleinpaste explained in the news story, this kind of variation is normal. I don't detect any overall decline.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/507369/why-there-seems-to-be-fewer-cicadas-this-summer 
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