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BUGS THAT COUNT

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Along the East Coast of the United States, a cohort of periodical cicadas known as Brood X occupies the prime turf from New York City down to Washington, D.C. Brood Xers are the hip, urban cicadas, the inside-the-Beltway cicadas, the media-savvy celebrity cicadas. When they emerge from their underground existence every 17 years, they face predatory flocks of science writers and television crews, hungry for a story. This year was a Brood X year. Back in May and June, all along the Metroliner corridor, the air was abuzz with cicada calls, echoed and amplified by the attentive journalists. Then, in just a few weeks, it was all over. The cicadas paired off, fell silent, laid eggs and died. The press moved on to the next sensation. Perhaps a few straggler cicadas showed up days or weeks late, but no one was there to notice, and their prospects cannot have been bright. I worry that the same fate may befall an article about cicadas appearing weeks after the great emergence, at the very moment when most of us want to hear not another word about red-eyed sap-sucking insects for at least 17 years. I beg my readers' indulgence for one long, last, lonely stridulation as the summer comes to a close.
机译：从美国东海岸到纽约，一直到华盛顿特区，一群名为“ Brood X”的周期性蝉占据着主要的地盘。BroodXers是时髦的城市蝉，百老汇内部的蝉，媒体-精明的名人蝉。他们每隔17年从地下生活中脱身时，就会面对一群渴望获得故事的掠夺性的科学作家和电视剧组。今年是育雏X年。早在5月和6月，在Metroliner走廊上，到处都是蝉鸣的嗡嗡声，细心的记者回响并放大了。然后，在短短几周内，一切都结束了。蝉成对结对，陷入沉默，产卵并死亡。新闻界转移到下一个轰动。也许有几只散乱的蝉迟到了几天或几周才出现，但没有人注意到，它们的前途不可能一片光明。我担心同样的命运可能落在有关蝉出现几周后出现的一篇文章上的那一刹那，而此时我们大多数人都希望至少听到17年关于红眼树汁吸食昆虫的说法。随着夏天的临近，我恳求读者沉迷于一个漫长而又孤独的旅程。

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    《American Scientist》 |2004年第5期|p.401-405|共5页
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    Brian Hayes;

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    211 Dacian Avenue, Durham, NC 27701;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 自然科学总论;
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