are like a cicada:
it cries constantly
but never shows its face
Miwa no Sugikado
Found on BibliOdyssey along with a couple of woodcuts by Utamaro. Although we heard them all through the dog days of August, I only once found one, a mature wing-ed one, dead, when I was about 10. I pinned it to an acoustic ceiling tile and it was my bug collection. I'm just back from a visit to Toronto where I unearthed this while planting potatoes in my mother's garden.
Unless someone tells me otherwise I'm calling it a cicada. It still seemed to be in a state of suspended animation but definitely still alive, so I buried it again. It's not due to see the light of day until May 18th by this calculation - E=(19.465-t)/0.5136 - where E is the emergence start date in May and t is the average April temperature.
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having just watched 'The Return of the 17 Year Cicadas' on Youtube... I think you're correct in your assumption.
oops... meant to say what a cool discovery too.
I'm glad that you concur. See if you can find it making it's way up the blue spruce to disrobe in about 3 or 4 weeks.
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