I added a few new photographs to the cicada album, including all nude cicada-on-cicada action. You might also notice I figured out how to preserve the EXIF data, so you can see when the pictures were taken, and what F-stop I used. Now please stop sending me all those "So what F-stop did you use?" emails.
Did anybody catch the most excellent cicada story on the NewsHour last night? Duh, of course you did. NewsHour regular Jeffrey Brown interviewed the University of Maryland's own Mike Raupp. I was not aware that Brood X actually includes three different species, each with a distinct mating song. You can hear them if you listen to the story at the link above. This helps the males attract females of their own species. I think it would be totally kinky if a female from one species got it on with a male from another. There ought to be a magazine dedicated to this fetish. To steal a joke from Shannon: Brood XXX Enthusiast -- published 17-yearly since 1885.
And yes, Kan, they're everywhere.
Posted by cradle at May 28, 2004 12:30 AMMan, those photos are great.
Posted by: glen at May 28, 2004 11:07 AMA couple of things:
First, the photos are great. I bet the folks at the National Geographic are just shitting themselves. You think I'm sarcastic, but, really, I'm just exagerating for the sake of humor. They are good. Did you wait for the cicadas to strip, uh, I mean molt for you?
Secondly, I found these two informative and helpful websites regarding the numerous, new, neighbors on which we step and into we run:
1st:
http://www.cicadaville.com
2nd:
(I guess from the onion I didn't see, please direct me if you know the orgin.)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/toolheadjdg/244257.html
But David, the most basic thing that divdes one species from another, especially in the insect world where insects be riding each other's morphological johnson constantly, is that they do not mate. So if two members of different species mated, they would suddenly become the same species. That is not very kinky.
Posted by: cliff at May 29, 2004 08:21 AMWell, I said "got it on." If a male human puts his tra-la-la into the hoo-ha of a sheep, are they suddenly the same species?
Posted by: David at May 29, 2004 12:35 PMThanks everybody for the very nice words about the photos. Except for Shannon. Just kidding. I just look around in front of the house and if I see something good, I'm like, "Get me a picture of that, self!" So I do.
Posted by: David at May 29, 2004 12:37 PM