Two adult cicadas size each other up on a wooden railing.
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2 comments:
Alyssa
said...
Wow! This must be a very special time of year for both humans and cicada predators! It is amazing how trillions of those insects develop underground for 17 whole years and emerge from the ground in the same few-week period! They say that the periodical cicadas spend most of their time underground to survive. Their burrowing is good for the environment, like how worms burrow also. It is also cool that not only animals eat cicadas, people eat them too. I wonder if predators know when this "Swarmageddon" will occur because it only happens every 17 years! This article was really interesting and I haven't learned about this before.
This is awesome! I think it would be really cool to see the first one emerge and watch the rest do the same. The only weird thing is, is one day your garden would be all normal, and in the next couple day, it would be swarming with cicadas. These bugs are really cool. I think at first I would be a bit afraid, even though I love bugs, only because they seem to be pretty big, and if they landed on me, I would probably think that they were some kind of bee or wasp of hornet or whatever. But still, I think that this would be really cool to watch, and by that i mean their whole process. What do they look like when they are first born? Are they lighter? Do they have wings? How many eggs do they lay at a time? I have os many questions. I'd love to see these bugs in action.
2 comments:
Wow! This must be a very special time of year for both humans and cicada predators! It is amazing how trillions of those insects develop underground for 17 whole years and emerge from the ground in the same few-week period! They say that the periodical cicadas spend most of their time underground to survive. Their burrowing is good for the environment, like how worms burrow also. It is also cool that not only animals eat cicadas, people eat them too. I wonder if predators know when this "Swarmageddon" will occur because it only happens every 17 years! This article was really interesting and I haven't learned about this before.
This is awesome! I think it would be really cool to see the first one emerge and watch the rest do the same. The only weird thing is, is one day your garden would be all normal, and in the next couple day, it would be swarming with cicadas. These bugs are really cool. I think at first I would be a bit afraid, even though I love bugs, only because they seem to be pretty big, and if they landed on me, I would probably think that they were some kind of bee or wasp of hornet or whatever. But still, I think that this would be really cool to watch, and by that i mean their whole process. What do they look like when they are first born? Are they lighter? Do they have wings? How many eggs do they lay at a time? I have os many questions. I'd love to see these bugs in action.
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