I found it dead on the sidewalk. You don't see them very often, but that is more than compensated by the times you hear them. When we first moved to Canada I was completely puzzled by their sound. Thought it must be all these electrical wires everywhere along the streets resonating. Long stretches of shrieking sound coming and going. Not like any animal of any sort. But it is, it's a cicada, a big bee-like ugly thing, quite frightning when you see one fly. Which doesn't happen often. The Wikipedia knows why: The nymphs of the periodical cicadas live underground, at depths of 30 cm (one foot) or more, feeding on the juices of plant roots. They stay immobile and go through five development stages before constructing an exit tunnel in the spring of their 13th or 17th year. And then they make their horrible sounds, mate, and die. So I guess the one I found has mated. Good for him. Or her.
- they are deeply revered in Provence.
Here?
They are noisy and disgusting and leave their brown shells all over my porch and clinging to my flowers.
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I put this corpse on my porch. The wasps are having a feast.
in Kansas City the noise they make is about 50x louder... so loud that you can't sit outside at night and talk without yelling... they also shed their skin, and you can find these hollow translucent bugs clinging mostly to pine trees.
i think they are cool... but they are big, and creepy
haven't seen you for a while.... house count down:
18 days till we move back to first ave!!!!
in Kansas City the noise they make is about 50x louder... so loud that you can't sit outside at night and talk without yelling... they also shed their skin, and you can find these hollow translucent bugs clinging mostly to pine trees.
i think they are cool... but they are big, and creepy
haven't seen you for a while.... house count down:
18 days till we move back to first ave!!!!