Summer of the Cicadas

These things are amazing. Apparently they live under ground for 7 years here and then all come out to mate one summer for like four weeks. It was all in the news so we knew this would be the summer. When they finally came out there were so many. They made a noise that was almost deafening with so many of them joining in. They seemed to be everywhere. And they were huge. The birds loved it. I saw a dive bombing bird take a large flying cicada right out of the air a few times, which is doubly impressive when you saw that some of the birds weren't that much bigger then the bugs. In a couple of weeks the bodies littered the sidewalks and streets. The kids had fun catching them and learning about these fascinating little bugs.