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Brood II Cicada (Bear Mountain State Park, Doodletown Brook Trail)
Brood II cicadas only show themselves on the surface at the very end of their 17 year lifespan. Emerging to the daylight only to breed, they have a mere 3 weeks to do so before they perish. The vast majority of their lives are spent underground where plant roots are fed on. It is speculated that these insects appear on a 17 year basis because as a prime number, peak predators populations cannot easily sync up. Most other creatures normally have frequent and easily divisible cycles. In this way, predators can never rely on having cicadas as a food source.
Elliott Brood
KEXP Live Performance
SxSW
ME TV Studio
Austin, TX
Photos by Jim Bennett
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Elliott Brood plays Oct. 20, 2009, at Schubas in Chicago. My review and more photos are at: www.undergroundbee.com/2009/10/elliott-brood-at-schubas.html
of Colletes cunicularius from a previous season, exposed by erosion, still in situ embedded between layers of post-glacial riverine deposits. The tunnel refilled by the female is to the right. Eclosion happened sideways apparently, as this might have been the easy way out.
Note the lower left end of the cell, having safely held the semi-liquid provisons. In this case, too, tunneled parallel to the sediment layers.
Taken from the playing fields near the river trent in Beeston (next to the wier) - was playing frisbee with Al (flickr name: algreer) when we realised the whole sky was brooding & beautiful.
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D: Jorge Luis Borges 1726, Palermo.
H: Miércoles a Domingos de 13 a 20hs.