A little thing like Cicada's going away. May not be a little thing.

Living_Dead_Girl · February 23, 2012, 07:23:35 AM

This is a thought that has been nagging at me for ages. And making me a tad unsettled... It has been summer in my part off the world. And I randomly remembered a childhood memory...

In the summer me and all the other kids, at dust, would all use to go looking for Cicada Beetles. By following their singing. Never could find the tricky little buggers. But most kids had their left over shells in a shoe box. (Their shells are brown, they come out a grassy green colour... making it hard to find them in the grass.)

It is now summer, and I have realized that for years. They have been gone. It just hit me. They are gone.

I don't know when this happened. But they are not the only things dissapearing, I remember frogs and tadpoles use to be in every pond. I even had pet Silk Worms, and fed them mulberry tree leaves...

They are liturally little things. But it is strange They just dissapear in not even a lifetime. Maybe they just moved locations. But then it makes me think. Why? I think too much.

... way to much.

dean · February 23, 2012, 07:27:09 AM

Yeah I've noticed that too. Kinda strange right? With a week to go for summer you'd think you'd get at least a few cicadas at some point. We used to see dead 'shells' everywhere but now nothing...

indianasmith · February 23, 2012, 07:54:26 AM

Still plenty of them down here in NE Texas. That is odd.

Derf · February 23, 2012, 08:24:11 AM

And yet they are increasingly rare in South Texas. I had noticed their disappearance a few years ago. I still hear them occasionally, but they were everywhere when I was a kid, flying away as you walked under a tree and peeing on you as they flew off.

akiratubo · February 23, 2012, 08:29:55 AM

There have been no cicadas, no honey bees, no moths, no butterflies, no wasps, and hardly and spiders here for a couple of years. We had plenty of mayflies but not in as great a quantity as we used to. I don't ever hear frogs singing anymore, either.

tracy · February 23, 2012, 01:28:45 PM

We still have them here in Central Texas....I love to listen to them singing at night.

alandhopewell · February 23, 2012, 02:00:42 PM

When I was a child in Lorain, Ohio, one of my favorite things was catching praying mantises-they were just cool.

They used to be everywhere, but I noticed by the eighties that they were getting scarce.

Leah · February 23, 2012, 06:56:50 PM

I found a cicada under a brick in the sidewalk in front of my house and looked it up- it was a periodical cicada, meaning they bloom every 17 FRIGGEN YEARS!!! Just give it time and they might comeback.

Living_Dead_Girl · February 27, 2012, 04:35:49 AM

I want them back. It is a little thing... But I never realized I was going to miss it soo much one day =/ I really gotta remember to appreiciate the little moments >_<

RCMerchant · February 27, 2012, 05:21:45 AM

Plenty of cicadas here in southwest Michigan. Shells are always stuck all over the place come summertime. And,yes,they're loud little buggers.

They feed on sap-is there a great loss of tress in your area?