Cicadian clicks
Looking for love, but finding
Mostly hungry birds
Putnam’s cicada (Platypedia putnami) are common throughout Colorado and make a loud click, rather than a buzzing like many other cicada species. I’m not sure what local birds might eat them. In eastern Colorado, Mississippi kites subsist almost entirely on cicadas in the summer hatch period. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Eilene Lyon 
Fascinating looking critters. But I’m okay with them being food for birds 😉
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There’s a reason insects are models for aliens in the movies!
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Seriously!!
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I’ve never thought much about what they look like. They are quite beautiful up close. Nice haiku.
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Thank you, Heather.
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Interesting creatures.
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One of the first clues that the cicadas have arrived is finding their molts attached to plant stalks around the yard. Then the clicking begins!
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Amazing. And do they come only so many number of years?
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They live underground about 3-5 years, but some come out every year.
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I think our cicadas are of the buzzing variety.
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We have some buzzy ones, too, but I don’t know the species. Far more of the clicking variety, though.
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