{"id":26331,"date":"2019-04-18T14:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T18:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=26331"},"modified":"2019-04-18T14:18:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T18:18:52","slug":"cicadas-are-good-indicators-of-environmental-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/cicadas-are-good-indicators-of-environmental-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicadas are good indicators of environmental quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"605\" data-attachment-id=\"26334\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/cicadas-are-good-indicators-of-environmental-quality\/hannah-hightower-19\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Hannah-Hightower-19-6564.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,605\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D750&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Hannah Hightower works in the lab Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 in Davenport Hall.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1548847489&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;38&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Hannah Hightower-19&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hannah Hightower-19\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Hannah Hightower works in the lab Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 in Davenport Hall.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Hannah-Hightower-19-6564.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-26334\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Hannah-Hightower-19-6564.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Hannah-Hightower-19-6564.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Hannah-Hightower-19-6564-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Hannah-Hightower-19-6564-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Hannah-Hightower-19-6564-580x390.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Hannah-Hightower-19-6564-610x410.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Hannah-Hightower-19-6564-250x168.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Hannah-Hightower-19-6564-595x400.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the lab, undergraduate student Hannah Hightower sets her sights on studying cicadas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DeAnna Beasley studies bugs. Assistant professor in the biology, geology and environmental science department, she is learning what makes city-dwelling insects like ants and cicadas different from their forest-dwelling counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Do they eat different food? Are they smaller?<\/p>\n<p>Beasley asks these kinds of questions because she wants to know how human activity\u2014obviously more present in the city\u2014affects insects and how species of bugs are adapting to environmental changes taking place in their urban homes. She is particularly curious about urban-dwelling cicadas.<\/p>\n<p>Beasley is not the only one at UTC asking these types of questions. Undergraduate student Hannah Hightower has set her sights on cicadas, too. With Beasley as her mentor, Hightower is studying the spread of fungal pathogens in cicada populations.<\/p>\n<p>Her research ties into the bigger picture of how does urbanization and human disturbance affect insect populations? \u201cIt\u2019s something that people frequently overlook because cicadas are not cute. They\u2019re gross-looking. They\u2019re really loud in the summer. No one really cares about them. But they\u2019re good indicators of environmental quality,\u201d says Hightower.<\/p>\n<p>The cicadas that she studies live about 17 years underground, feeding on the xylem tissue of trees. Xylem tissue pulls water and nutrients from the ground into the tree. Hightower says the trees are like an \u201cenvironmental straw\u201d to cicadas.<\/p>\n<p>So when the cicadas living underground munch away at tree tissue, they\u2019re taking in everything the tree has sucked up from its environment. \u201cAll of that will manifest in the cicada and they sort of serve as biological time capsules,\u201d Hightower explains.<\/p>\n<p>After those \u201cbiological time capsules\u201d have resurfaced and passed away, Hightower dissects them, specifically to see what fungus was present in their bodies and how the fungus is being spread. The end goal is to better understand how urbanization is affecting the health of the insects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cicadas are good indicators of environmental quality, including city life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/cicadas-are-good-indicators-of-environmental-quality\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,123865,3,48007],"tags":[70401],"class_list":{"0":"post-26331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-biology-geology-and-environmental-science","7":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","8":"category-community","9":"category-research-academics","10":"tag-cicadas","11":"entry","12":"has-post-thumbnail"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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