What an attention-grabbing title:
Cicadas Are Delightful Weirdos You Should Learn to Love
I'm sorry, but there is simply no way that thing can be referred to as "delightful" !!
UGGGGGH
Here's how the article starts:
Around this time of year, Marianne Alleyne hosts dozens of houseguests in her basement. Far from using camping equipment or cots, they sleep upside-down, clinging to a curtain. The entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has collected cicadas, those bizarre and misunderstood cyclical insects, for four years.
“In Illinois, we have 20 species, and hardly anything is known about them,” Alleyne says. “We know very little about what they’re doing underground.”
In her basement ??!!??!!??!!??
There is no freakin' way I'd ever want to visit Ms. Marianne's house.
Unless she had fresh pie -- preferably peach or strawberry-rhubarb. And was willing to share.
In that case, I might look past the cicadas in the basement.
Take a read:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-are-cicadas-180975009/
Grace & Peace & Love to you all -
Matt
Cicadas Are Delightful Weirdos You Should Learn to Love
I'm sorry, but there is simply no way that thing can be referred to as "delightful" !!
UGGGGGH
Here's how the article starts:
Around this time of year, Marianne Alleyne hosts dozens of houseguests in her basement. Far from using camping equipment or cots, they sleep upside-down, clinging to a curtain. The entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has collected cicadas, those bizarre and misunderstood cyclical insects, for four years.
“In Illinois, we have 20 species, and hardly anything is known about them,” Alleyne says. “We know very little about what they’re doing underground.”
In her basement ??!!??!!??!!??
There is no freakin' way I'd ever want to visit Ms. Marianne's house.
Unless she had fresh pie -- preferably peach or strawberry-rhubarb. And was willing to share.
In that case, I might look past the cicadas in the basement.
Take a read:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-are-cicadas-180975009/
Grace & Peace & Love to you all -
Matt