Hordes of cicadas have recently appeared in my neighborhood. Here's a typical individual viewed from the side:
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Loud Bugs!
Alien Invaders
Hordes of cicadas have recently appeared in my neighborhood. Here's a typical individual viewed from the side:
In some places the cicadas are so numerous they collide with cars and people. I've had them bouncing off my chest during bike rides. One day, as I walked through a cloud of flying cicadas into our local library, one of them hitched a ride on my arm. Once inside it flew off to the ceiling with a loud buzz.
From surrounding trees males call to females. There are many, many individual calls, and the combined sound gets quite loud, almost leaf-blower-loud.
Jeez, these are alien looking things, aren't they? Big bug eyes, creepy triangular faces, and scary clingy legs.
Hordes of cicadas have recently appeared in my neighborhood. Here's a typical individual viewed from the side:
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When I was in Maryland 10 years ago, a different group of cicadas was out. I was playing frisbee outside when one flew down my shirt. My first instinct was to slap it, but fortunately I resisted and had to shake it out of my clothes.
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