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This year, an exciting phenomenon occurred in the eastern United States: the emergence of Brood X periodical cicadas. Brood X is also known as the Great Eastern Brood and is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the eastern United States.
Every 17 years, Brood X cicada nymphs tunnel upwards en masse to emerge from the surface of the ground. The insects then shed their exoskeletons on trees and other surfaces, thus becoming adults. The mature cicadas fly, mate, lay eggs in twigs, and then die within several weeks. The combination of the insects' long underground life, their nearly simultaneous emergence from the ground in vast numbers, and their short period of adulthood allow the brood to survive even massive predation.
Soon enough they will be gone, not to be seen again until 2038.
June 20, 2013
Warren Twp
Warren Twp, Somerset County, NJ.
Magicicada septendecim
Magicicada cassini
Magicicada septendecula
There was a fairly large increase of Magicicada septendecula in the immediate area from the weekend of the 15th through the following week. In addition, Magicicada septendecim and cassini seem to have passed their peak here in Warren Twp, they are still loud but not nearly as deafening. The slight but significant drop off in the two more prevalent species definitely helps when listening for the third- cassini especially seem to really drown out and mask the sound of septendecula.
Magicicada septendecim- the constant background drone (spaceship).
Magicicada cassini- the slowly rising and falling rasp (these always hurt my ears the most).
Magicicada septendecula- the bouncy, rhythmic foreground noise (like someone shaking a bag of coins).
These are baby bees. Sort of. At this point they're in their larvae stage. Bright white larvae is healthy, so that's good.
I used a Nikon D2x with a Nikkor 28mm lens reversed on 3 micro extension tubes an SB 900 speedlight to take the shots of these baby spiders
The calm of the storm.
This shot was taken just as the storm started to let loose from under my rain fort
Ochetellus workers relocate their brood after being disturbed by me. The nest was located in the frass of a borer on a tree branch - I imagine an easy nesting material to make use of. Oxley Creek, QLD.
The sky was looking a bit overcast at lunchtime when I was out looking for a shot, and the wind was fair blowing.
This is the old lighthouse by the entrance to the western harbour at Leith. It's looking a bit abandoned and decrepit, but it stands out well against that brooding sky.
On one of our rides we stopped by this horse farm and watched the expecting mares being being let out from the corall. This first white mare was apparently a peruvian horse.
Female Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula) and (late) brood, Buxton Pavillion Gardens, Derbyshire, England.
We visited the St Julien Canadian memorial as part of our 2 day battlefields tour last year. Wikipedia says: The St. Julien Memorial is a Canadian war memorial and small commemorative park located in the village of Saint-Julien, Langemark (West Flemish: Sint-Juliaan), Belgium. The memorial commemorates the Canadian First Division's participation in the Second Battle of Ypres of World War I which included the defence against the first poison gas attacks along the Western Front. Frederick Chapman Clemesha's sculpture, the Brooding Soldier, was selected to serve as the central feature of the monument following a design competition organized by the Canadian Battlefield Monument Commission in 1920.
Lake Geneva, WI 2007, Big Foot Beach State Park. Seventeen year cicada brood XIII comes alive. Millions of insects. The sound you hear was deafening and could be heard miles away!
I didn't like the photo I took of my drawing. But I already framed the drawing... So here the drawing framed... (frame made by my wife...)