June 06, 2004
Brood X
Cicada, member of Brood X (better late than never)
Plaza beside an office building in Northern Virginia
One of my goals this weekend was to see some cicadas. Brood X—the seventeen-year cicadas—has been rampaging through the Northern Virginia/District of Columbia area for the past few weeks. We managed to miss the peak, but we saw and heard a few of the stragglers. Siegfried said the plaza beside his office building was the place for cicada viewing: at the height, the plaza had to be swept of cicadas twice a day. And they had a special trash bin filled with buzzing cicadas. That I would have liked to see, but I had to content myself with the fifty odd late bloomers bumbling around on the pavement. Actually, if the plaza had been covered with bugs, I probably wouldn't have wanted to lie down on it to take close-up action shots of the bugs, so it's just as well.
157 words | June 6, 2004 09:37 PM | Shutterbug