Eggs of extinct singing insect brought to Hampshire from France (www.bbc.co.uk)

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British conservationists have travelled to a French military base to bring a long-lost singing insect back to the UK.

The Species Recovery Trust (SRT) has collected New Forest Cicada eggs from the Académie militaire de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan in Brittany and brought them back to Paultons Park Zoo in Hampshire.

The insect was last seen in the New Forest in the 1990s and specialist listening equipment was used to locate the insect in France and its eggs which were hidden inside the stems of bracken.

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[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Nature's tinnitus

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

If they're anything like the ones we have in my neighbourhood, they're screaming insects, not singing.

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