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What’s with the Energetic Tree Frogs?
Cicadas anyone?
On Saturday, this past weekend, when I was at the farmers market, we were inundated with cicadas. Near where we always set up our canopies on the ground around the tree, the dead cicada insect frass piled up. In addition, to the frass, the cicadas with their transparent wings and red eyes seemed to be everywhere. They hung around us and didn’t seem to be afraid of us. It almost seemed to enjoy human company.
The insects are loud, sounding a lot like the phasers used on Star Trek. Fortunately for us, they are harmless.
Conversation At the Farmers Market
One man who came to my booth had a cicada perched on his finger as if it were a trained bird.
After the man left, the woman next to me and I talked about these insects. She said that one morning, a couple of weeks ago, she woke up and heard a loud sound that she thought were frogs.
She told her husband. “Boy, the frogs sure are energetic today.’
“They aren’t frogs. They are cicadas.”
She then told me about how she had always associated the sound of cicadas with the fall when the annual cicada hatching occurs here in this region.