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--Apple-Mail=_466DC8C1-D942-4A9A-9070-8FB4EDD4FA87 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 P.S. As a kid in the Chicago suburbs eons ago, I experienced a mass = emergence and subsequent unceasing loud calling of zillions of = periodical cicadas, but this was also eons before I began writing notes = of observed natural history. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > Date: August 20, 2014 at 4:58:18 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Cc: Todd Smith <todd.smith@acadiau.ca>, Kirk Hillier = <kirk.hillier@acadiau.ca> >=20 > AUG. 20, 2014 - At home in Wolfville, Pat was hanging laundry to dry = on our deck and discovered an adult annual or dog-day cicada (Tibicen? = species) sitting vertically on some wood (just like a chimney swift). = This was a very fresh-looking living specimen, possibly just having = emerged as a pupa-like last larval or nymphal instar, despite the fact = that lots of folks have been hearing the adult males calling for two = weeks or more in various parts of the province. >=20 > =46rom my past reading about =91annual=92 cicadas, the length of life = cycles of the various species range from 2 to 5 years as an underground = nymph that feeds on various roots (versus the Magicicada periodical = cicadas, whose amazing life cycles last either 13 or 17 years, both = prime numbers, presumably to foil any would-be mass predator whose life = cycle is the same length). =20 >=20 > Google both on the Internet, if you haven=92t before, to witness the = emergence and calling (mostly in May?) of the periodical species and = various identified broods that are either every 13 or 17 years. >=20 > As ar as I know, Nova Scotia has annual cicadas, but no periodical = species. >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > = http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists.= ca --Apple-Mail=_466DC8C1-D942-4A9A-9070-8FB4EDD4FA87 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">P.S. = As a kid in the Chicago suburbs eons ago, I experienced a mass emergence = and subsequent unceasing loud calling of zillions of periodical cicadas, = but this was also eons before I began writing notes of observed natural = history. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.<div><br><div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">August 20, 2014 at = 4:58:18 PM ADT<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Todd Smith <<a = href=3D"mailto:todd.smith@acadiau.ca">todd.smith@acadiau.ca</a>>, = Kirk Hillier <<a = href=3D"mailto:kirk.hillier@acadiau.ca">kirk.hillier@acadiau.ca</a>><br= ></span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" = content=3D"text/html charset=3Dwindows-1252"><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial;"><b>AUG. 20, 2014 </b>- At home in Wolfville, Pat = was hanging laundry to dry on our deck and discovered an adult <b>annual = or dog-day cicada (</b><i>Tibicen</i><b>?</b> species) sitting = vertically on some wood (just like a chimney swift). This was a = very fresh-looking living specimen, possibly just having emerged as a = pupa-like last larval or nymphal instar, despite the fact that lots of = folks have been hearing the adult males calling for two weeks or more in = various parts of the province.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;">=46rom my = past reading about =91annual=92 cicadas, the length of life cycles of = the various species range from 2 to 5 years as an underground nymph that = feeds on various roots (versus the <i>Magicicada</i> <b>periodical = cicadas</b>, whose amazing life cycles last either 13 or 17 years, both = prime numbers, presumably to foil any would-be mass predator whose life = cycle is the same length). </div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;">Google both = on the Internet, if you haven=92t before, to witness the emergence and = calling (mostly in May?) of the periodical species and various = identified broods that are either every 13 or 17 years.</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; min-height: = 15px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial;">As ar as I know, Nova Scotia has annual cicadas, = but no periodical species.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>N= ature mailing list<br><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a><br>http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnat= uralists.ca<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_466DC8C1-D942-4A9A-9070-8FB4EDD4FA87--
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