Cicada
Icebear
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We have a huge population of cicadas around Washington DC. Obviously we don't see them too often, because 99% of them are on a 17 year cycle that we're 6 years into (1970-1987-2004-2021-etc.) Every now and again, some poor freak shows up lookin' for love, all out of phase. Gotta be frustrating. I mean, these things don't even eat. They don't have mouth parts at all! Hatch, dig out of the ground, climb a tree to dry out, fly around, buzz like crazy, mate & die. And that's if you get the timing right. Anyway, I found this poor doofus today, and thought I'd at least memorialize him. With no girls around, he wasn't gonna get any anyway.
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John :
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
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Brian V.
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awww. I have a dead one in my backyard--if he's into necrophilia, we can try and get them together--desperate times call for desperate measures.
Glad you got his portrait--it's the least he deserves, poor little doofus.
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why does it take so long for them to emerge?
remember seeing a tv prog and there were thousands of them all emerging at once!
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Brian, yes, you're right. I had spent way too much time fiddling about with the stack, and guess I got burned out. The critter's left front leg and back are a bit wonkey. What do you think the chances are that I'll redo it. . . ?
By the time I got him up to Noo Yawk (and Queens in particular) HE'd prolly be the object of some other necrophiliac bug's attention. They don't live too long.
And no, they don't emerge by the thousands. More like millions. I'll let you guess which of the "class years" my about-to-become mother-in-law and bride were going absolutely bat-shit crazy over the hordes of these monsters crawling up every tree and structure in the garden where our wedding reception was going to be held. The sound was deafening. They filled up buckets with GALLONS of bodies. Believe you me, I can multiply by 17!
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
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Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.