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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.
-- Tometheus (talk) 11:21, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
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- 2007-05-26@14-29 Freshly molted.jpg
Here I am in my underwear, and you just won't go away!
Cicada exuvia