Cicada Gallery

They're swarming the planet by the BILLIONS! They've been burrowing unnoticed beneath our feet for YEARS! It's the Invasion of Brood XIII and they only have MATING on their minds. Can humanity survive the invasion?!? Coming soon to a webpage near you.

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!

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  Um, excuse me, I'm a little busy here.
  Cicada nymph molting

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  Hey, do you mind? I'm trying to get undressed here!

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  Ahhh... almost ready to fly. Bring on the women!

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  Ooops.. are my hind-wings showing?
  Good image showing the hind-wings as they dry.

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  Hey, haven't I seen you somewhere before?

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  Are you lookin' at me?

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  Cicada exuvia

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  Hey, we're all adults now, let's have an orgy!