Invasion of the Cicadas
Well friends, it looks like the thing I’ve been dreading for months has finally arrived…
NASHVILLE CICADA INVASION, 2011.
Yes, this is the year that “Brood XIX” emerges from underground and does their mating thing. What that means for us humans is that millions of cicadas will be wreaking havoc on Nashville…
for the NEXT SIX WEEKS.
*shudder*
I wasn’t here the last time Brood XIX came up for air thirteen years ago, but it seems that everyone who was has a story about it.
And most of those stories involve a cicada in the mouth.
IN THE MOUTH, people.
Of course, I’m hoping that the stories I’ve been hearing of cicadas in homes, in clothing, in hair, and in other, uh… orifices… have been embellished a bit in people’s memories over the last decade or so. I’m hoping that all the tiny holes that have appeared in the ground in our front yard around our big elm tree were actually created by a silent team of cleats-wearing soccer players, who just happened to run through our yard at midnight. I’m hoping that the beetle-like creatures I’m starting to see on trees and sidewalks everywhere I look are just ordinary bugs. I’m hoping that that whirring sound in the trees that I couldn’t ignore yesterday was just…
Oh hell.
They’re heee-eere.
And I’m not leaving my house until they’re gone.
Images via superbatfitsh/Flickr, Anderson Design Group and tinyfroglet/Flickr
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