Monday, July 04, 2005


This cicada was probably newly emerged from the underground nymph form. He just sat there and made no attempt to fly. These guys produce a constant buzzing drone during the summertime. We have a giant wasp known as a "Cicada Killer" that specializes in hunting these insects as a food source for the wasp's larvae. Posted by Picasa

6 comments:

swamp4me said...

They've been emerging up here, too. Yesterday my husband found one at the base of one of his tomato plants in the garden.

R.Powers said...

I remember one day as a Park Ranger having some tourists ask me, "What is that buzzing"
At first I wasn't sure what they meant, the droning is so incessant that I think my brain had filtered it out. I had to stop and "relisten" to know what they were talking about.

swamp4me said...

I can relate. I'm that way about green treefrogs. Visitors will ask what's making all that "noise" and I will have to stop and think to sort out what I'm hearing. I usually end up asking, "You mean that airplane?" Guess I just don't think of natural sounds as noise.

R.Powers said...

Next cool day is probably late September...maybe.

Anonymous said...

I had one,one hot summer day somehow end up under the engineers seat on a locomotive.When it started the buzzing unexpectedly I pulled my feet up,first thought was that there was a rattlesnake under my seat.

R.Powers said...

Rick,
It does sound like that when you are close. Hey the uncle I spoke of in the last post (July 6) was your daddy.