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Image:2007-05-26@16-25_Nymph molting.jpg|''Um, excuse me, I'm a little busy here.''<br />Cicada nymph molting | Image:2007-05-26@16-25_Nymph molting.jpg|''Um, excuse me, I'm a little busy here.''<br />Cicada nymph molting | ||
Image:2007-05-26@16-34_Nymph molting.jpg|''Hey, do you mind? I'm trying to get undressed here!'' | Image:2007-05-26@16-34_Nymph molting.jpg|''Hey, do you mind? I'm trying to get undressed here!'' | ||
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Image:2007-05-26@14-31_Cicada almost ready.jpg|''Ahhh... almost ready to fly. Bring on the women!'' | Image:2007-05-26@14-31_Cicada almost ready.jpg|''Ahhh... almost ready to fly. Bring on the women!'' | ||
Image:2007-06-06@17-15_Cicada_hindwings.jpg|''Ooops.. are my hind-wings showing?''<br />Good image showing the hind-wings as they dry. | Image:2007-06-06@17-15_Cicada_hindwings.jpg|''Ooops.. are my hind-wings showing?''<br />Good image showing the hind-wings as they dry. | ||
Revision as of 00:25, 7 June 2007
Brood XIII: Bug-Eyed Nympho Invaders from the Center of the Earth!
This morning was another one of those magical overcast days like I talked about last time. However, this time, the nymphs I'm seeing aren't mosquitoes, but cicadas.
I've long been fascinated by cicadas. I first experienced an emergence in Oklahoma when I was a kid in first grade, (Brood IV in 1981). It's certainly an interesting survival mechanism they have evolved -- overwhelm your predators all at once and most of you will survive. Also, the absolute predictability of the emergence is astounding each time I experience it. In the past, I was impressed by the predictability of the year and month, now there's even a formula to predict the exact date.
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Tometheus (talk) 11:21, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
Cicada Gallery
- 2007-05-26@14-29 Freshly molted.jpg
Here I am in my underwear, and you just won't go away!
Um, excuse me, I'm a little busy here.
Cicada nymph molting
Hey, do you mind? I'm trying to get undressed here!
If you must stare, at least do me the favor of chasing that squirrel away. I don't like the look in his eyes.
Ahhh... almost ready to fly. Bring on the women!
Ooops.. are my hind-wings showing?
Good image showing the hind-wings as they dry.
Hey, haven't I seen you somewhere before?
Are you lookin' at me?
Cicada exuvia
Hey, we're all adults now, let's have an orgy!
