I was going to rant about something...

[hummingwolf]

... but then I started watching the butterflies and cicadas and dragonflies chasing each other outside and I forgot what I was supposed to rant about.

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[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

heeheehee. neat.

I think we are just north of cicada territory. I've been looking and looking and listening and listening and not seeing or hearing a single solitary one. I guess it's time to resign myself to the possibility that this particular cicada doesn't do Nutley, NJ. I saw a normal number of them late last summer (3-ish... every year for as long as I can remember I've seen 3-ish cicadas) and up in NH we used to hear them, but maybe that was a different species? Or maybe Nutley wasn't strategically viable as an invasion spot. It being Nutley, NJ, after all. (At least it's not Bayonne.)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

There are different kinds of cicadas. The ones you're used to seeing are probably annual cicadas, which tend to be nice, pleasant additions to the summer and don't get a lot of press. There's a map of the periodical Brood X's distribution here--are you in there anywhere? There's a page about periodical cicadas here which seems to be pretty good.

And yeah, all the flying insects today were really very neat!

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe. We're right on the line, on that very tip there that almost brushes Long Island.

Periodical cicadas... I don't know, that strikes me as funny somehow. Magicicada is also a nifty term, but I'm liking the periodical cicada. So this website is periodical cicada literature?

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

i think you wrote a parable instead. :)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Did I? Heh. Maybe tomorrow I should try for a sermon. ;-)

nature's way

[heatherp8.livejournal.com]

of soothing you.
hope you don't mind if I friended you.
Crickets are the nature sound I could most assuredly do without!

Re: nature's way

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I don't mind being put on your list at all! Will check out your journal later. :-)