A Field Guide To Cicadas
Yesterday, we linked to a wire story that described how a six-year old Illinois boy managed to find a blue-eyed cicada. Now, this isn't all that odd, it happens in about one in a million cases according to the experts. But we here at Blue Crab Boulevard, helpful as always, thought we should provide a handy field guide on cicadas, so you know which kind are attacking you. Now a normal cicada has red eyes. But there are those blue-eyed ones, also known as Norwegian cicadas or Sinatra cicadas:
Then there are the green-eyed cicadas, also known as the jealous cicadas:
But the most dangerous of all is the hard-living, all-nighter cicada, also known as the "Where the hell did I leave my car" cicada:
(Yes, it's been one of those days….)
By Bleepless, Monday, 11 June , 2007 @ 6:52 pm
Then there’s the liberal cicada (bright red) and the hippie cicada (paisley).