Last year was supposed to be the great 17 year mass cicada emergence across the Midwest and East coast. In our part of Indiana we only saw one cicada shell and heard none of the loud insects. Within the last two weeks we have heard a lot of cicadas at night. We have found four of them on the tires of our vehicle. One is in the photo, above. They missed the big show by a year…
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Those things are fascinating & creepy, all at the same time.
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Oh you describe them very very well! Bravo! 😉
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They waited until the crowds died down. Makes me think of that Yogi Berra quote: “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” 😆
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Well played, lois. Yogi Berra’s quotes are priceless and timeless… 😉
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Maybe they were delayed by cicada covid. I’ve never seen them on tires. Excellent photo.
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Thanks, Tim. Hmmm….cicada covid. I’d buy that! lol
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We were infested this summer with the cicada killers. Seriously, thousands of them swarming outside.
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Those cicada killer wasps are both awesome and scary. Thankfully they only go after cicada and don’t have stingers! In a previous home we had quite the colony of killer wasps, they loved making their burrows in the sand under our pool pavers.
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The song of the cicada is the epitome of my childhood summers! We rarely see or hear them since it has been so hot and dry down here in Texas! Thanks for sharing.
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I sure understand. Cicadas breaking the night time silence is borderline magical. 😉
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I heard cicadas for the first time as a child, 8 years old, on a vacation in then Yugoslavia. There they started to make their sound in the evening. I liked it. In later years they nearly disappeared completely because of extensive use of insecticides, like so many others.
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The sound of cicadas is for me a most pleasant memory from childhood, just like yours. The loss of species is sad.
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Late bloomers.
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Tim from NM suggested that it was a covid delay. I can believe that as messed up things have gotten… 😉
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