Scientists studied how cicadas pee. Their insights could shed light on fluid dynamics
Cicadas, and the way they urinate, offer a 'perfect' lab for understanding fluid dynamics at very small scales, researchers say
This spring and summer, across the Midwest and Southeast United States, cicadas will crawl out of their underground burrows by the trillions to mate — due to two different broods of these wingèd insects emerging at about the same time, one on a 13-year cycle and one on a 17-year cycle.
In their brief several weeks aboveground, their mission will be to reproduce. Each male will attempt to attract females by producing a buzzing noise as loud as a lawnmower.
But beyond their prodigious numbers and raucous noise, new research published in reveals that cicadas are special in yet another way — their urination. Based on their size and of pee.
