Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for May 08, 2024

I see The Clash of The Cicadas!!! on the theater marquee!!!

All cicadas are awake. They aren’t sleeping when they’re underground.

Yup. We’re great at setting examples.

War, for certain. Perhaps churches will be burned.

Boomers and millennials. Losers!

Thus proving her point.

Once their eggs are laid the myriad dead cicadas will have been the result of the great cicada civil war of 2024! Hmm! That metaphor is getting too close for comfort.

They should settle their differences with a series of games. Call it the CicadOlympics.

So will they cross breed and start a 15 year cycle?

periodical cicadas don’t spend their years underground in hibernation.

One side is Red. The other is Blue.

Most can’t tell them apart…

I walked outside and took the sound level of the outdoors with all the cicada noise: 60 Db. In contrast as i sit here at my computer in the kitchen, it is running about 25 db. And I can still hear the cacophony going outside, as well as the gentle hum of the computer power supply fan.

“Oh yeah? Wait’ll I shed my shell, then we’ll see whose better.”

I swear, every summer I would spend in Connecticut had the unwelcome buzz of cicadas in the evenings, every year.

There is very little overlap of their ranges and very little chance of breeding together.

Let’s see, in 2020, did God sent a viral plague disease because T-rump was in power? This year will God send a plague of cicadas, or maybe locuts? I hope people listen and vote blue.

Ha! And here I thought my tinittus was just getting worse.

Not so much like us. They aren’t doing it on social media; they’re doing it face to face.

It does sound familiar.

You’d think the extra 4 years would make them a lot less brood-y

Kindred souls.

They look sort of like olives to me.

Teenagers vs. teenagers??? Arghh!