Cicadas
Monday, August 2, 2010 at 9:18AM
[chuck] in Science, cicadas

These guys are all over the trees in my backyard. After living underground for most of their lives, the final nymphal stage of the cicada emerges from the soil, climbs a nearby tree, sheds its skin, and becomes an adult. The synchronous buzzing of these insects is one of the characteristic sounds of summer.

A cicada shell;
it sang itself
utterly away.

-Matsuo Bashō

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