#Cicadas

[faunandfloraas]

"Song of the summer" and it's always some upbeat pop thing. I don't know about that summer. Song of the summer should be low and droning amd thrumming but it feels like it might start picking up the pace but never quite does in any satisfying way and goes on for way too long and you can't quite decide if you like it or want to smash the stereo to pieces

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[chequerootlurks]

Two Blue-Eyed Cicadas found in Chicagoland, by the same family!

It was first discovered by four-year-old Jack Bailey, who found it in his family's yard in Wheaton, Illinois. His 14-year-old sister, Caroline, noticed its blue eyes and showed it to their mom, Greta Bailey.

They let the cicada go; then discovering how rare it was went to find it again. They either found the same one, or another blue-eyes.

In a different neighborhood, another blue-eyes was found 🩵

@onenicebugperday , @crevicedwelling

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[nepeteaa]

will you be a part of the emergence?

cicada shirts coming for preorder on Friday!

[shiroikabocha]

favorite bug?? ?

Once in high school I went to a Bruce Springsteen concert and it was a hot summer evening so the bugs were out in force and this one tenacious cicada flew right into Bruce’s face and bounced off onto the floor in front of him and he bent down to pick it up and held it out in front of the crowd and he said “all right, okay, I don’t want to cast aspersions on your local wildlife here, but North Carolina, can somebody please tell me—what the FUCK is this space-alien-lookin thing?” and a reporter took a picture and that was the image they used in the paper the next day: Bruce Springsteen looking perplexed while holding a concussed cicada

so yeah that’s my favorite bug, it was that specific cicada

[cicada-guy]

not art related but very cool picture from my cicada trip to illinois that i must share!!!!!!!!

[indoorscreamingvoice]

Easily one of my best paintings I think, SUPER proud of it

Brood XIX 2024

[qjqzxjq]

Photographer - John Horstman

[dammit-theclown]

Cicada backpack cicada backpack

[samimarkart]

some of my favorite bugs

[etakeh]

This is so cool.

Tell me you've never wanted a molting cicada plushie. It's got iridescent wings. LOOK AT IT.

Also got a pitcher plant backpack...with a doomed caterpillar. Sorely tempted.

(he also makes glow in the dark plants) (and breeds monstera) (and has a free downloadable guide to plant breeding for cool characteristics)

anyway support independent artists or something? that make cool things?

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[typhlonectes]

[apsciencebydan]

An emotional support cicada, if you like 💚

(Cicadettana calliope floridensis, one of the smallest cicada species)

[geopsych]

Tiger swallowtail on cupflowers, 26th of August 2020.