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shhhh!

My husband is developing an obsession with cicadas. He's always liked insects, but never really found "his bugs" but I think the mysterious goggle eye'd cicadas may have his heart.

I'm obtaining and leaving field guides in strategic locations about the apartment.

wish me luck!

(and if you have not yet found *your* bugs keep searching, there are bugs for each of us. )

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#CicadasOfMastodon

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When he died in 1189, Kiyohara was buried in the grounds of his mansion (close to the current shrine).

His mausoleum was known as Godō Myōkan-sha (五道冥官降臨). Godō Myōkan are 5 underworld officials who assist King Enma in the trials of beings from the 5 realms of hell, hungry ghosts, animals, humans, & heavenly beings


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*drumroll* and now it's time for …

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

*drumroll*

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these plushies of cicadia might interest you then perhaps as a gift? 🙂

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Tyler Thrasher | Cicada Plushie

This plushie is a scientific homage to one of Tyler Thrasher’s favorite insects. This 2-in-1 plushie features adult cicada molting from its previous shell.
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Evan Prodromou
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"there are bugs for each of us"

I like that! I need to find my bugs. Currently I have a pretty bad relationship with one bug, Popillia japonica, and I could probably use some friends.

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Do you have dragonflies in NYC? They're probably my favourite insects. Jewel coloured, they hover with cool fairy wings, and their main diet is bugs that bite humans. We're getting more and bigger dragonflies in the city in recent years, but away from civilisation they really do thrive.
A striking crimson red dragonfly perches on a wooden chair. Its wings are swept forward dramatically, not quite hiding its yellow head.
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Em
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Can I appreciate bugs from afar?
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@farah

Yes! Some of them may need their space.

But macro photos where you can see their eyes and what they are doing can make them less intimidating because you come to recognize they aren't just running around startling everyone for no reason. (exceptions may apply)

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@farah
Try binoculars! Good for the larger insects, like butterflies, bumble bees, and such. If you can get your hands on some close focus bins, they can get you within a couple of feet for smaller critters.

Not ideal for photography, but you can enjoy them and get to know them while keeping some distance.

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#BugWatching #NatureLovers

#naturelovers #bugwatching @myrmepropagandist @Em
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I think you mean "shhh shhh shhh shhh SHHH SHHH *SHHH SHHH SHHH SHHH SHHH*"

(I grew up in Virginia and for me, that is the sound of summer and I miss hearing it up here.)

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I prefer spiders over bugs in general, but my spirit animal is a bug for sure: Armadillidium depressum 🫣
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my bugs find me

It's really pretty uncanny

I hit the point in the party where I start to zone out a little on accident and I may be alone except for a praying mantis or a spider

so I chat with them a little lol.

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sharing random cicada story

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I do love me some cicada singing. I took this picture on Sunday when the little beastie gracefully ran into me.
A cicada crawling out of a gently closed hand
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Careful with that Cicada. 😁

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Cicada Used in 'Armed' Robbery

"Hands up!" A giant, eerie creature with wings and menacing red eyes. At any other time, such a description found here on Theresa's Haunted ...
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Level this up, start leaving cicadas in strategic locations about the apartment.
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there are just too many awesome insects to choose from!

Hmm. Ants, bees/wasps, or dragonflies, if I had to narrow it down at the moment. Beetles too?

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My main bug has always been and will always be the Monarch Butterfly but it doesn't exist in a vacuum--there are other bugs which affect it and so I have a lot of bugs as "my bug".
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Well, take cicadas for example.
Common knowledge says that birds don't eat Monarchs because they're poisonous. There are at least 2 species of birds that didn't get that memo and one of them breeds here: the migratory Mississippi Kite. But that's when they can't find larger flying insects around. When the cicadas finally emerge in summer, Kites leave the butterflies alone.
To protect Monarchs I need to pay attention to both these critters, and I do.

Edited to add that ants get my attention as well: oleander aphids feast on the Monarch's only host, the milkweed, and their proliferation is very much encouraged by the ants that farm them. It's been a weird year, though--those aphids have been showing up on plants they don't normally show up on (Mare's Tail, Spanish Needles) but they're very much smaller than their usual size--nonetheless they've really multiplied in numbers, going easy, therefore, on the milkweeds).

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I found mine at age 12

The great diving beetle, Dytiscus marginalis

It's been my favourite ever since, adults and larvae.

Different species of Dytiscus around here, Ontario, but only days after making a pond in my garden, there was a whizzing sound went by my ear, and one crashed into the water.

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@EricLawton i remember the first time i saw a wooly aphid ..i was seven and was sure i'd seen a real fairy
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I think my favourite is the yellow underwing. Studied their ultrasonic hearing for my master's project back in the last millennium...

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@bitsnpieces They probably sold out. I'm not the store owner. Sorry.

Perhaps you should contact the creator directly ?

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good luck


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