Isn’t Nature Wonderful? – Periodical Cicadas
Written by Jack Weiman, age 11
June 6, 2013
Every 17 years periodical cicadas come out of the ground in the middle of spring to find a mate and lay eggs. Cicadas spend 17 years underground sucking sap out of roots from trees. Cicadas aren’t very good flyers when they shed from there old skins and make an all you can eat buffet for birds. But most people are afraid of cicadas and think that cicadas are gross and yucky bugs. For example at my school there are a lot of cicadas and at recess I would go over to where they are and if one falls out of a tree I would go and put it back. When I showed it to everybody they all screamed. I don’t think that people understand how harmless cicadas are. It is a five times in a lifetime opportunity or it could be even less than that. Hopefully people will soon realize that cicadas are not yucky bugs and that cicadas are wonderful creatures.
Cicadas? I “got” no stinking cicadas (obscure reference). There were suppose to be millions of them,,,nothing on Eaglecrest. I have to wait another 17 years.
I now have a new appreciation for these critters…! Thanks for the article and pass the chocolate syrup 🙂