The ash tree in my backyard was very slow to put out leaves this spring. I was convinced that it had gotten the ash bore and was dead. As you can see it is very much alive. The preventative cycle in our state and surrounding states it to go ahead and cut it down. I guess the philosophy is that get a new tree started as it is going to eventually die anyway.
It is crawling with
We as southern Iowans don't have the benefits of higher education as there is out east. Generations have called them locusts in the rural area as they are invasive just like the locusts of grasshoppers. It is a common language thing as everyone calls them locust but they are not locust. I have decided that the locust we had in the fall each year while growing up are also not locusts either but they too are cicadas. Anyway I hope I live out the next few years corrected even though they were always called locusts in my neck of the woods all of my life.
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Hi Larry, this is a lovely photo. I usually hear cicadas when it is very humid, and it is for this reason that I am not overly fond of them. Since I don't handle the high heat and humidity well, hearing the cicadas only magnifies this knowledge. Thanks for sharing all this info about them.
Very nice. I love photos like this.
Yikes. We watched a documentary about the cicadas. What a fascinating creature!!! Must've figured out that seventeen years was just the exact number to preserve the species. ;-)
No cicadas in my countryside but in the south of the country, yes. Beasts very moisy.
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