the essential New York City is currently beset by swarms of flying insects. The inhabitants wonder about the phenomenon.
In the streets of the “Big Apple”, people talk about the apocalypse. After the smoke from the fires in Canada, the recent arrival of swarms of insects in the bays of New York is worrying. In detail, it’s actually aphids that move in swarms and are living a living hell for New Yorkers. Destabilized cyclists, assaulted joggers…
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The cramped city was flooded with winged insects. Some people even associate it with a bad omen from the biblical scripture announcing the apocalypse.
u2716ufe0f But in reality, everything is much simpler: the invasion of aphids… pic.twitter.com/jXGGHenSoi
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According to experts, these are insects that appear after mild winters and rainy springs. “The beginning of summer, with the humidity and the heat and the very heavy, very localized precipitation of the past few weeks, provides fertile ground for their development,” explains Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann, a researcher at Cornell University.
“It’s just impressive, unpleasant, unusual,” says François Lasserre, entomologist and vice-president of the insect office, quoted by our colleagues from CNews. However, the phenomenon remains problematic, especially since in this species of aphid, the females can be brought to reproduce without fertilizing. Enough to promise more days of chaos.
2023-07-06 13:01:00
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