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Cicada


Cicada
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Copyright: Bill Nesnidal (fightingillini) (79)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-05-28
Categories: Insects
Camera: SONY DSC-T1
Exposure: f/3.5, 1/80 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-04-06 18:14
Viewed: 398
Points: 6
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This past summer was the emergence the 17 year cicadas in the Midwestern United States.

These insects were everywhere and covered trees around the area. This is one I took in my backyard on a hasta leaf.

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Cicadas—insects that spend most of their lives as nymphs, burrowed underground and sucking sap from tree roots—emerge once every 17 years. Living fast and dying young, the shrimp-size, red-eyed insects transform into adults, reproduce, and die, all the while buzzing to beat the band.

• Cicadas are often called locusts, but locusts are migratory grasshoppers that often travel in vast swarms. The appearance of cicadas in large numbers apparently caused the early European settlers in North America to equate them with the plague of locusts mentioned in the Bible.

• Periodical cicadas are found only in the United States east of the Great Plains. Seventeen-year cicadas are found mainly in the northern, eastern, and western part of their range. Thirteen-year cicadas predominate in the South. Within the 17-year cicadas there are 12 year-classes or broods.

• While different broods emerge in different years, there are some years in which there are no broods, the so-called empty-class years. Broods generally are geographically based, but there can be some overlapping. Some broods are found only in small areas. Others, like Brood XIII, can range across many U.S. states.

FROM: National Geographic: Cicada Facts
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  • tuslaw Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 200 W: 7 N: 494] (1569)
  • [2008-04-06 18:30]

Bill,
Really nice macro shot of the cicada. Very sharp and detailed with nice natural colours. I still remember their sounds extremely well, as we had many in our area last summer. TFS
Ron

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  • Art_R Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 190 W: 16 N: 458] (1871)
  • [2008-04-06 21:31]

Hi Bill , nice photo , of this insect , I like the red eyes , field is a bit shallow for me but that is just individual taste ... found your notes interesting , I posted a cicada that I photoed in Alberta Canada , now I am curious if it is a periodical variety...

thanks for sharing

regards

Art

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  • jalvex (67)
  • [2008-04-07 2:36]

Hi Bill. Very nice shot. Great colors and good sharpness.And look to those wings.
That´s why cicadas do so much noise isn't it?
Keep shooting.
TFS.
Best regards.

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