ЦИКАДА: 17 років під землею заради 2 тижнів співу

It is born - and immediately disappears underground for seventeen years. Without the sun, without dawn, in complete darkness, it counts the time and comes up exactly when it is needed - along with billions of its own kind. This is the story of the cicada: a creature that solved the problem of prime numbers long before humans, turns its own death into fertilizer for the forest, screams on the verge of human pain and spends ninety-nine percent of its life where no one ever looks. In this film - from egg to last song: the biological clock, the mathematics of survival, the parasitic fungus that turns the cicada into a living zombie, the place of the cicada in the myths of Greece, China and Japan, and why twenty-first century science suddenly saw so much usefulness in this insect. Timecodes: 00:00 — The Amazing Life of a Cicada 00:49 — What is this video about 01:23 — Egg, nymph and life underground 03:29 — How a cicada counts years without the sun 04:58 — Why prime numbers? 07:13 — Predator satiety 07:59 — Mass exodus from the earth 09:54 — The last molt and transformation 11:43 — Singing and one hundred and seven decibels 12:56 — Timbales: how sound is arranged 14:07 — Death, biomass and benefits for the forest 15:05 — Partnership with a tree 15:55 — Periodic and annual cicadas 17:51 — Cicada in the mythology of peoples 20:32 — Parasitic fungus: a living zombie cicada 22:07 — The chemistry of zombification: cathinone and psilocybin 23:07 — Climate change as a threat 24:40 — Cicadas as food 26:34 — Benefits for science and technology 27:19 — Ninety-nine percent of life in the dark 28:39 — Double exit in 2024 29:46 — Finale: just a cicada