May 28, 2007

Sara Eats Cicadas

While I avoid the big purple gorilla in the room (Hi Gorilla!), you may have heard that here in the Chicago area we've been infested with cicadas. Brood 18, the 17-year-cycle cicadas (red-eyed locust freaks), erupted this week - pouring over every outside surface like scurrying, winged lava.

There is, seriously, one on every leaf of my hosta.

At night, you can feel the vibration of the millions of them - moving, molting, mating.

They sound like a vacuum cleaner. They stick like flypaper to whatever they land on. They are harmless, non-toxic, and - let's face it - a little apocolyptic.

And?

Yummy.

Not ME. Sara.

Here's a movie we made this weekend of her snacking down:

Posted by: Elizabeth at 02:44 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 The cicadas were out in force the year of our wedding ... ah, memories.

Posted by: Ruth at May 28, 2007 03:44 PM (1pGHA)

2 Delurking just to say that I am laughing out loud. Good dog, Sara. Good girl! (And good riddance to those bugs.)

Posted by: Melanie at May 29, 2007 02:04 AM (LIgO6)

3 Am grinning ear to ear that you have come back to us. Hope it is long-term.

Posted by: Beth at May 29, 2007 01:22 PM (w341q)

4 Sara, defender of the hostas! They haven't made it up here - thank god. Totally have the heebes just thinking about them.

Posted by: Michele at May 29, 2007 02:18 PM (fcaMV)

5 What a cute movie and a cute pup!

Posted by: Janie at May 30, 2007 10:48 AM (EKMxC)

6 When we lived in Korea, we had to walk through clouds of cicadas. The sound just about sent me round the bend.

Posted by: Tammy at May 31, 2007 08:17 AM (xO2S4)

7 euch. couldn't watch all that, had to wimp out half way through!

Posted by: dodo at June 03, 2007 11:24 PM (pXg4J)

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