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some cicadas and their shell-pod-things that crunch crunch crunch under your shoes

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~pale-bones 5 days ago
i keep coming back to this, so stunning
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~lemgras330 Apr 22, 2013  New member Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Wonder why they say they come every 17 years? You certainly hear them every summer,I guess this year we'll see them too! YUCK!!
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~teaganwhite Apr 22, 2013  Professional General Artist
It's a different genus than the ones you see every summer -- they live underground for 17 years and then all at once come up for a couple months in droves, breed, and die. Totally different life cycle from the annual ones!
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~lemgras330 Apr 22, 2013  New member Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Yeah, I've saw the previous batch 17 years ago! Birds catching them in mid-air...they love them. :wow:

I hate when they buzz past your ear, seemingly flying so slow and the shells of themselves they leave behind!:x

They do have pretty wings and the one's I've seen are a nice iridescent green color! :-)

I have one as my avatar to gradually get used to looking at 'em.
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~teaganwhite Apr 23, 2013  Professional General Artist
i think the insects themselves are goooorgeous, but i can't help being really really freaked out by their shells.

it was 2008, the year i graduated high school, last time the 17 year cicadas came up. as a senior prank a bunch of people caught tons of cicadas and let them loose in the school, they were everywhere. guys would eat them in class to freak girls out.
i wish i'd known at the time that they were 17 year old creatures, it makes you feel a lot more respect towards them!
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~lemgras330 Apr 23, 2013  New member Hobbyist Traditional Artist
That must have been a fun day for the teachers (not). You're a brave one Teagan! If I were there and saw the infestation in the school, I'd still be in therapy!:giggle:

I'm probably gonna change this silly avatar to something more human.:-)
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~HedwigtheStrange Mar 5, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Gorgeous work!
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~grihm Jan 9, 2013  Student General Artist
My fiancé is well aware of my deep love for your art and my out of control obsession with cicadas and for Christmas, I received this print on a society6 phone case from him :) I am very happy with it.
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(I am also seriously considering getting a cicada tattoo...and commissioning you for the art. That would have to be in the future though.)
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~bokukurokuro Dec 30, 2012  Student General Artist
<3
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~Yudaev Dec 21, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
seems as strange, dangerous and very nice done ! - beautiful feeling of the painting' surface
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