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Cicadas - entomology
6:35 am
Mon June 13, 2011

Cicadas: the science behind the invasion

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Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
Two cicadas hang upside down on a branch, facing in opposite directions, to mate.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
Male cicadas have two white organs called tymbals that they use to make their characteristic loud song to attract mates.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
After living underground for thirteen years, cicada nymphs tunnel out of the ground to shed their skins and begin their adult lives.
Credit (Art Chimes)
The nymphs climb up a bush or tree to molt during the night leaving their brown casings behind.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
These adult cicadas are part of the 2011 emergence of brood XIX, the Great Southern Brood of 13-year periodical cicadas.
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They’re back. And if they’re out in your neighborhood, they’re pretty hard to miss.

I’m talking about the periodical cicadas. In the past few weeks, they’ve emerged by the billions in states from Maryland to Georgia to Oklahoma.

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Tourism - China
4:32 pm
Thu June 2, 2011

Missouri Botanical Garden to host Chinese lantern festival

Credit (via Karen Hill/Missouri Botanical Garden)
Lantern sets representative of those that will be in the exhibition at the Missouri Botanical Garden next year. You can see artist renderings of the actual lanterns to be featured in the exhibition in the slideshow in the story below.
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The Missouri Botanical Garden will host a Chinese lantern festival next year.

The exhibition—the first of its kind in the United States—will feature 26 large, brightly-colored lantern displays from China's Zigong province.

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Elk restoration
4:18 pm
Thu June 2, 2011

Elk released from holding pen, some with new calves

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The elk brought to Missouri early last month as part of a restoration project have been released from their holding pen.

The Missouri Department of Conservation released the 34 elk along with five newborn calves on Wednesday.

The adult elk and calves have been fitted with GPS radio collars as part of a cooperative research project with the University of Missouri-Columbia. The collars will help researchers track the elk's health, movement patterns and preferred types of vegetation.

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