jane_and.the_dragon

 
registro: 15/04/2014
Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, your reputation is who people think you are. ht
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CICADA YEAR

     This year is a locust year in  my area of Pa.   Anyone that does not know what they are I will put a pic of them in my photos.   They are a very noise insect that only takes wing and flies once every 17 years.   Although you may see them on the ground or on tree branches and if you are out a t night you may see them before they shed their shells and sprout their wings.   Although  for the most part they are harmless to  humans if left alone, occasionally they have been know to defend themselves if they feel threatened.   My mom said she was bit with one the year my brother was born.   My first locust year was not a problem I was a kid and did not know any better lol.   The second one was a little more traumatic for me.   Two of them that were apparently mating fell out of the tree behind our house and landed on my back in an area I could not reach.   I could see them crawling up my back in the glass of the storm door.   I yelled for my mom to come help me get them off me and she just laughed at me.   I have not been ok with locust years every sense.  Thank God it only happens every 17 years.    I can see me doing a lot of staying in this summer till their beading cycle closes.   This will be the very first locust year for nearly all my great nieces and nephews so it will be interesting to see how they deal with it.   They ALL live near wooded areas lol.