Preferred hosts for cicadas include trees such as oaks, maples, willows and ash species, but cicadas are very opportunistic feeders that will likely be attracted to whatever large plant is nearby the nymphs underground habitat. Cicada Nymphs ...
At noon, yellow pink sunflower blossoms against the midday sun. Sitting in the yard of a peasant, listening to the cicadas on the buttonwood tree birds, occasionally there will be a flower cat through the legs. At this time, walk the crook, will feel at ease and pleasure. Evening, on ...
A Roi-Tan Panatelas box protected my true bugs, cicadas, grasshoppers, and katydids. All of my beetles were neatly arranged in a box that once held Swisher Sweets and the Dutch Masters box served as a catchall for everything else. I can still smell that pungent aroma of tobacco mingled ...
consider how the context has changed today. You alone can decide if you want to compare your luck with that of others. You decide: compared to a healthy, wealthy and happy person you might feel “cheated.” Comparing yourself with a poor, starving ...
As dusk approaches the throbbing wail of cicadas loses its urgency and eventually stops, as do the relentless attacks of blood-sucking deer flies. The white-throated swifts that had ruled the skies for most of the afternoon are now settled in for the night, giving way to their mammalian co...
Maybe that’s why, as a parent, I’m especially attracted to sharing these stories with my kids. I have as much to gain as they do. Nell Plants a Tree (ages 4-8), written by Anne Wynter and illustrated by Daniel Miyares, is a fresh twist on the trees-are-great trope. Inspired ...
Deciduous trees shed their rootlets in winter months, but grasses do not (2). This is not an issue in tropical regions. Perhaps the reason why periodical cicadas are “attracted to woodland edges and exposed aspects, especially for chorusing and ovipositing” (1) is their offspring will be...
I Know, After Suffering Through (or not) The "Spring Of The Cicadas" You Probably Don't Want To Talk About Illinois' Bugs For A While---But Japanese Beetles Don't Really Care What You Want For those needing a description, the Japanese beetle is an insect native to Asia that can fly...
Individuals are also attracted to lights at night or captured in Malaise and flight intercept traps. Based on the known biology of C. ungulare LeConte in eastern North America, the larvae of all species of Cephaloon are likely to develop in decaying logs infected with fungal rot. Cephaloon...
In those days I kept my insect collection in sturdy cardboardcigar boxes. King Edward Imperials housed my butterflies and moths, while the dragonflies were stored in a White Owl box. A Roi-Tan Panatelas box protected my true bugs, cicadas, grasshoppers, and katydids. All of my beetles were...