*tucking into my sleeping bag*
Ant Who Has Been Judging Me All Day: "Well I see you have finally decided to grow up and start pulling your own weight around here. Hmph. Good!"
@michaelgemar @futurebird Let me put in a good word for cicadas. Two years ago, we had a cicada in our front tree that kept chirping long after the other cicadas had given up or died.
We named him Boris and enjoyed him for a wildly long time as we sat out on our front stoop.
I have a tee shirt with a memorial image on it. It says “RIP Boris, 2007-2024”. (Not the actual Boris. Stock art.)
@marick @futurebird The cicada life cycle is so wild. Decades under ground, and then a few weeks above as adults.
Biology can be bizarre.
Cicadas are like the kind of perfectionist who won't share their book until they have been working on it for 17 years and it's perfect.
I like to think they spend all that time composing their little songs. Getting all of the screaming just right.
@futurebird @michaelgemar @marick
Also, they're absolutely stunning https://flic.kr/p/rbSn4F
@marick @michaelgemar @futurebird Previous cat Kobaïa once brought me a wounded Cicada in the middle of the night. Woke up quite suddenly when it decided we needed to hear the song of its people...
(But then I got a nice photo out of it, so fair's fair.)
@davefischer @marick @michaelgemar
It's always so confusing when they do this "look it's a creature! It's still alive, I was carful just for you! Let's chase it together! Mom? Why are you crying?"
@futurebird @marick @michaelgemar
a. The cats bring me a slightly chewed, but still active mouse in the middle of the night, drop it next to my head.
b. Mouse immediately tries to hide in my dreds.
c. I wake to the cats attacking my hair.
@davefischer @marick @michaelgemar
Moments that make one question everything.
@michaelgemar @futurebird And now the noble name of the cicada is associated with a coronavirus strain.
"New ‘Cicada’ COVID variant is spreading in the U.S.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-cicada-covid-variant-is-spreading-in-the-u-s-heres-what-to-know/
Most unjustly maligned insect? Next, perhaps, to the earwig.
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