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cicada at my window

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08-15-2005, 02:19 AM
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cicada at my window

this flew into my window and landed on the bar there (still there hrs later)...pretty cool...flash kept hitting the window so I opened it to take a few pics while hoping it wouldn't fly in...odd, pretty and creepy...observing is good but wouldn't want it to land on me

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Cool I caught one just like that yesterday.
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 I helped move the meter!   08-15-2005, 08:40 AM
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Great pics....should have known Matt would have one.
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Looks like an alien! lol
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Looks like an alien! lol
Indeed! A very NOISY alien!
When we were kids we would catch them and tie a peice of string around them, tie the other end to a button on our shirt and put them in our shirt pocket. Eventually they would crawl back out of the pocket and try to fly away. This resulted in them flying in a leashed circle over our heads, buzzing and chirruping all the way.
If you happened to be standing with someone at the time it sure tended to startle them!
The person not the bug!
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cool
we have a lot of them here
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By the way, that's an annual, or dog day cicada (Tibicen chloromera)
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Also, they are completely harmless. The legs might prickle a little, but it wouldn't hurt you if it landed on you.

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Looks like an alien! lol
I just wanted to say exactly the same,LOL!!!
Never heard of or seen one like that before!

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lol merlin...that's pretty funny

annual? so there's a different kind that comes out every 17 yrs? did u keep the one you caught? you sure are getting together quite a lot of insects

it was there until this evening...

and never heard this one make a sound other than the thump when it hit the window...

I didn't think it could hurt me but I'm not quite up to wanting insects walking on me...bit squimish of that lol
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