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Singing Cicadas Brought Back to UK From France After Disappearing in 1990s
- This week, the Species Recovery Trust introduced 11 female New Forest cicadas into a newly established environment near Paultons Park in the UK.
- The New Forest cicada went extinct in the 1990s, likely due to changes in land management, prompting conservationists to import the insects from northern France after a failed Slovenia trip.
- The cicadas have dark bodies adorned with golden bands and clear wings, and some are thought to be gravid as they start depositing eggs, with their young remaining underground as nymphs for at least four years.
- Project officer Charlotte Carne called the effort 'like bringing them back from the dead,' while director Dominic Price noted the warming climate could favour cicada survival in restored habitats.
- Conservationists will not know if the reintroduction succeeds until 2029 at the earliest, and if viable, adult cicadas will be released in the New Forest to re-establish their population.
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Singing cicadas brought back to UK from France after disappearing in 1990s
The first-of-its-kind project aims to re-establish populations of the insect in the New Forest.
·Weymouth, United Kingdom
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