Cicada
- Thread starter Gregg M
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Pretty. What's the forest around like?
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oh wow, so beautiful! we get cicada's around here too but they're no where NEAR this pretty. The ones around here are kind of a dull brown with hints of moss green. They're also bitter I think.
MWAInverts
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In love cicadas. Hear them all the time but never know where they are haha!
Smokehound714
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magicicada!
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Saw one resting in a tree near down town sac. That was 7 years ago and yet to see another.
-JohnD.
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I can hear them around my place too, but I have yet to spot one.
My head hurts trying to pronounce that...
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What do you think they're bitter about, having to stop hanging out underground and taking it easy all the time? Or maybe it's because it's their last year. I've seen 4 kinds around here, green, bigger greenish brown one with a constant song, one that is almost black but not so much as the one in the pic, and a midget one, ...small!, small! sorry, small. When I was a kid I would try to find them before their last molt on trees, only found a few, and would watch them molt.
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omg.. LOL bigger.. not bitter.. hah!
Akai
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yeah i detest bitter cicadas too. you can always tell the bitter ones too by the half ass songs they sing. i'm like good luck finding a mate with that crap. hope your kids are'nt as bitter as you. fortunately they've got at least a decade underground to get over themselves. lol
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What?, you think they're bigger about something? I'm confused. haha, I'm just kiddin around. Cicadas have always been kind of interesting to me, they look like giant leaf hoppers. I kept one in my room when I was a kid a few decades ago, it molted and I guess it was hungry because it started trying to peirce my finger. I didn't know what it was doing until I felt some pain, I threw it out the window after that.
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Poor little thing. It's wings didn't form properly. Must've molted in the grass.
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Periodical cicada, supposedly in huge outbreaks blue,white, and brown eyed individuals have been found.
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I've been hunting for the blue eyed ones, but haven't had any luck. There's always next (17) year! 