A Small Step for a Bug, A Giant Leap for Bugkind
May 26, 2004
We certainly have cicadas in Arlington now. At certain times during the day it sounds less like a spaceship idling and more like a full-fledged alien invasion.
I have heard, although I find it hard to believe, that some places do not have cicadas. The Design Kitten has a great photo of a couple.
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May 26th, 2004 at 1:57 am
I grew up with cicadas pretty much every summer, so I just always assumed it was an annual thing. Turns out, it’s a different brood every year. We never had any quite like those (more greenish-black than reddish-black), but they never seemed like a big deal when I was younger. Just another part of summer, and never that loud.
I don’t think there are any here in central PA.
May 26th, 2004 at 2:33 am
In some parts of the world the cicada hatch is much ballyhoo’d by fly-fisherman. :)
I never used to like bugs, until I took up fly-fishing.
May 26th, 2004 at 11:20 am
I was here for the last ‘emergence’ of the ‘brood’ (that’s pretty Sci-Fi right there). Back then I thought they sounded just like a phaser overloading in The Original Series…now, with the temperance of age and in all the breadth of my experience, they uh, still sound that way.