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blujayonthewing · 5 months ago

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seventeen year periodical cicada species are essentially indistinguishable from thirteen year species, going into the range of both broods would have been a functionally identical experience, it really doesn't even matter that I didn't get the chance to do that [said from the floor where I am lying curled up in a ball]

#'but you at least got to see all four species present in brood XIX right?'#[a little too loudly and too jovially] HAHA WELL ALL OF THE PERIODICAL CICADAS ARE SO SIMILAR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A FUNCTIONALLY IDENTICAL E #I did HEAR tredecim or neotredecim in the distance. I THINK I also heard decula calls a couple times but I'm not confident about it #also ngl not being able to actually collect other species as intended makes 'I have two dead cicadas I guess' a pretty big bummer #well this was supposed to be A Whole Cool Thing but what it is instead is two dead bugs I guess #eventually maybe I won't be too bummed out to pin them and put them in the display case I bought that's too big for just two #WHATEVERRR I DON'T EVEN CARE IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER [said from the floor where I am lying face down]#about me

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