Sunday, May 29, 2011

My little range buddy

This is one of the millions of cicadas that have been our companions this weekend. When the shooting stops, it sounds like someone's running a giant weed whacker.




4 comments:

bluesun said...

I forget: are those the things on the 14 year cycle? Forgive a poor western boy his ignorance...

DaddyBear said...

They do have a a multi-year cycle, but I think different species go at different periods of time.

Tango said...

There is a species that has something like 13-15 year cycle and when they emerge, they coat everything by the billions. That just happened a few years ago, so there's awhile to go before they emerge again.

Rivrdog said...

When I was a kid in DeeCee, we had the 17-year variety. They looked like 100X-sized bluebottle flies. Huge noise also, and the mess they left was horrible, but after a few summer thunderstorms, it was gone, and DID the birds gorge. There were some species of birds which ate so many of the critters that they couldn't fly.

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