High-tech cables originally designed for seismic monitoring are accidentally eavesdropping on the world’s loudest insects, in a move that could revolutionize monitoring their populations.
Entomologists now have an unexpected tool to track cicada brood numbers and assess their responses to environmental changes. But the technology, already common in cities and rural areas, goes beyond tracking cicadas, offering a new way to monitor the insects remotely.
The accidental discovery points to a harmonious marriage between technology and ecology, showing how fiber optics, essentially a data transmission channel, can listen to nature’s symphony.
Source: Ferra
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