"They're Alive!"

And, while we were out in the woods, checking them out, almost immediately, one attached itself to my wife and decided to return the favor; she's just one of those people everyone and... everything... seems to like, I guess.














Of course, I'm talking about this latest brood of seventeen-year cicadas that hatched, not so long ago and which will only be with us for about a total of four weeks, before they burrow back into the ground, not to be seen again, for another seventeen years.

So, I'm posting quite a large number of photos and, anyone who isn't interested, can just sit back and wait until next time, when I move on to some other subject(s). (Hint:) If you're gonna look at the ones I've posted, make sure you enlarge 'em.

In the meantime, there are many sites out there, that can give you much more information about these seldom-seen bugs, and here are a couple that I found, that have much larger, much better photos than my own.

Periodical Cicada Page

Cicada Mania





































Here are approximately thirty to fifty adults I captured this morning and transplanted to our own yard, to see if they would take hold. Unfortunately, we won't know for seventeen years, whether the little experiment worked. And, at my age, I don't honestly expect to ever know if our efforts were productive. But, if my kids, or possibly, grandkids get to see 'em, that's good enough for me.

Of the dozen or so we brought home yesterday, we did see three, perched atop one of our bushes, early this morning.
















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Tranquility

If you stuck around long enough to look at all the cicada pictures... and they didn't drive you "buggy", here is a small reward for your patience. We came across this, obviously, manmade waterfall on Saturday, while cruising the backroads in our area. I find it interesting how developers constantly tear up rural areas, in the name of "progress", and then add little landscaping features, to help attract would-be home buyers to the new subdivisions. I guess it's necessary, but I don't have to like it... and, except for the landscaping "improvements", it saddens me.

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