He came into the gallery and latched onto my finger like a newborn suckling a teat. We were inseparable. Until I pretended to eat him. Then, as is usually the case when I do that, he flew away without even so much as a goodbye.
10 comments:
Anonymous
said...
As a rule cicadas aren't much for goodbyes so don't take it personally. I'm sure it would have loved to stick around longer but probably had urgent cicada business to take care of elsewhere.
Or maybe it was trying to avoid pooping on your finger.
I remember walking to the local swimmin hole one summer when I was 8, and I came upon a couple of girlies from my class, poking at a GINORMOUS cicada on the sidewalk. They had a couple of sticks and prodded the thing none too gently as it clicked and whirred in its death throes. Finally one of the girls downright stabbed the mother and all this grey shit came oozing out...
We would always find them floating dead in our swimming pool when I was a kid. I just remember them looking like realllly big flies.
I've never seen one this green before. Does that mean he's newly hatched? Eric?? And this was the first time I actually held one. And he really did feel like he was suctioned onto my finger.
Brandon ate a cicada once. I think. Or maybe he just told me that to impress me.
I don't know what I would've actually done had Fredrick decided to jump into my mouth. Probably puked. Which, if the truth be told, wouldn't be the first time I puked on someone who was in my mouth. But alas, I digress...or di-gross...
Not sure about the color thing. But he's pretty large to be newly hatched. Had someone bring in a cicada similar to Fredrick back when the Asian long-horned beetle was discovered in Chicago thinking it might be one. How you mistake a large camo green insect with clear wings and no antenae for a shiny black beetle with white spots and inch long antenae is beyond me.
And the Mr ew was a typo but I decided to leave it since I was talking about bugs pooping on you.
Hey, when the panic's on people want to do their part to help no matter how misinformed they might be.
Back when the anthrax-in-the-mail shit was happening, the police department where Deb works got a call from some guy who had 'white powder' on his car. Turned out to be bird shit. Now THAT'S misinformed. But whatcha gonna do??
Speaking of bird poop- fun story. My friend is a city arborist in a nearby town. Recently he had a resident call and complain that the birds would sit in the tree and when he parked his car under it they would crap all over it. Anyone have any solutions?
He came into the gallery and latched onto my finger like a newborn suckling a teat. We were inseparable. Until I pretended to eat him. Then, as is usually the case when I do that, he flew away without even so much as a goodbye.
10 comments:
As a rule cicadas aren't much for goodbyes so don't take it personally. I'm sure it would have loved to stick around longer but probably had urgent cicada business to take care of elsewhere.
Or maybe it was trying to avoid pooping on your finger.
Mr ew?? Is that to differentiate you from your father, mr e? Can I just call you E-Dubya???
So anyway, you're telling me that a gaping piehole and unfurled tongue just inches from his face weren't what scared Fredrick away?
You ARE the bug expert, so I'll have to take your word on this. But if I were a cicada, I'm sure a sight like that would've scared the fuck out of me.
Maybe it was a gay cicada and just wasn't into that sort of thing.
If he'd closed his eyes he wouldn't have been able to tell the difference...
sheesh.
man, i lived in missouri for over 10 years and i never once saw one of those ALIVE. plenty dead during their mating season, but never alive. freaky.
I remember walking to the local swimmin hole one summer when I was 8, and I came upon a couple of girlies from my class, poking at a GINORMOUS cicada on the sidewalk. They had a couple of sticks and prodded the thing none too gently as it clicked and whirred in its death throes. Finally one of the girls downright stabbed the mother and all this grey shit came oozing out...
"Eeeeew! Tunafishy!" Was her description.
We would always find them floating dead in our swimming pool when I was a kid. I just remember them looking like realllly big flies.
I've never seen one this green before. Does that mean he's newly hatched? Eric?? And this was the first time I actually held one. And he really did feel like he was suctioned onto my finger.
Brandon ate a cicada once. I think. Or maybe he just told me that to impress me.
I don't know what I would've actually done had Fredrick decided to jump into my mouth. Probably puked. Which, if the truth be told, wouldn't be the first time I puked on someone who was in my mouth. But alas, I digress...or di-gross...
Not sure about the color thing. But he's pretty large to be newly hatched. Had someone bring in a cicada similar to Fredrick back when the Asian long-horned beetle was discovered in Chicago thinking it might be one. How you mistake a large camo green insect with clear wings and no antenae for a shiny black beetle with white spots and inch long antenae is beyond me.
And the Mr ew was a typo but I decided to leave it since I was talking about bugs pooping on you.
Hey, when the panic's on people want to do their part to help no matter how misinformed they might be.
Back when the anthrax-in-the-mail shit was happening, the police department where Deb works got a call from some guy who had 'white powder' on his car. Turned out to be bird shit. Now THAT'S misinformed. But whatcha gonna do??
Speaking of bird poop- fun story. My friend is a city arborist in a nearby town. Recently he had a resident call and complain that the birds would sit in the tree and when he parked his car under it they would crap all over it. Anyone have any solutions?
Post a Comment