What a face! those eyes! The invasion begins..
The cicadas have arrived. They are here in large numbers.
Emerging from their shells and clinging to the grass and leaves of trees.
The noise is deafening. Thankfully this only happens once every 17 years!
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Oh I read about this in the paper, Karen. We only have ordinary cicadas here, not the hibernating-for-17-years kind.
Shirley, we still have the usual yearly ones as well. Also the 11 and 14 year hatches. but these seem to be the biggest hatch!
Here we don't have cicadas like there.
They stay for all the summer? Oh My God
Ciao ciao
teodo, no thank goodness they finish up the cycle in about a month.
I just clicked on that first photo. YIKES! We had the 17-year cycle ones in Knoxville two years ago (or maybe that was 3 years ago). There were recipes in the newspaper for cooking them. We missed seeing them because of summering in Michigan, but found their exoskeletons when we got back there in the fall.
They swarm here in Australia, & can eat out whole farmers crops. I am not sure what the cycle is, but it is not every year. They certainly make a deafening noise!!
Meggie,Thankfully they do no real damage here. these are not like the locusts that eat everything in thier paths. For about a month they hang around to mate and lay eggs. most of them end up as food for the various birds.
LOL Nellie, they sure are cute eh!
Karen, They were here in Virginia a couple years ago - VERY LOUD!
Kyra
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