Dr. Elizabeth Long joins to discuss the upcoming cicada double-brood emergence
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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Dr. Elizabeth Long, assistant professor from the Department of Entomology at Purdue University joins to discuss the upcoming emergence of the Brood XIII and Brood XIX cicadas.
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| 0:29.9 | cicadas, the big box. Yes Casey I have heard that and it scares me to that you've had |
| 0:34.6 | running with cicadas before yes we detailed on this show the last time these things |
| 0:39.3 | were a thing one got in my house it was an hour long standoff. It attempted to assassinate me. |
| 0:45.0 | It then hung up on my fan for over an hour. I sprayed it with bleach, with Lysol, with Pledge, and finally it died a slow with a pledge |
| 0:53.0 | pledge and finally it died a slow and hopefully miserable death. |
| 0:56.0 | Okay well I don't know if you should be afraid of |
| 0:59.2 | Cacadas or not and to find out that information we've got a lady, a woman, a person, an expert. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, normally say we have a guy, but in this case we have a lady and her name is |
| 1:11.8 | Dr Elizabeth Long and she is if anybody could be an |
| 1:15.2 | expert in cicadas she would be that she's an assistant professor from the |
| 1:18.8 | Department of Entomology at Purdue University all right Elizabeth how afraid should I be of the cicadas this time around? |
| 1:25.8 | You should not be afraid. |
| 1:27.4 | You should not be afraid because they can't sting or bite and they're just clumsy. So that cicagate was not trying to kill me a couple years ago. |
| 1:35.6 | He was just clumsy and had no idea what he was doing. |
| 1:38.2 | Exactly. |
| 1:39.2 | So they're just big and scary looking. |
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