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Drummond Island Rocks no longer being taken for granite Member since October 2011 Posts: 8,913	locust hatching looks like an alien Aug 9, 2013 20:04:24 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 9, 2013 20:04:24 GMT -5 If I would have known how cool this was going to be I would have set up a tripod to get a better time lapse record of it. Chuck
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Jugglerguy gets rocks for Christmas Alpena, MI Member since December 2011 Posts: 6,874	locust hatching looks like an alien Aug 9, 2013 20:18:54 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 9, 2013 20:18:54 GMT -5 Wow! That is cool!
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Deleted Deleted Member Member since January 1970 Posts: 0	locust hatching looks like an alien Aug 9, 2013 20:53:41 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2013 20:53:41 GMT -5 That is an adult Cicada - hikingmichigan.wordpress.com/tag/michigan-cicadas/ Message unchanged. Awesome series of images. Alien bugs invade Michigan! Thanks for sharing.

Drummond Island Rocks no longer being taken for granite Member since October 2011 Posts: 8,913	locust hatching looks like an alien Aug 9, 2013 21:10:31 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 9, 2013 21:10:31 GMT -5 thanks for that info Scott. I don't know much about bugs but that sure was cool to watch. Chuck
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Deleted Deleted Member Member since January 1970 Posts: 0	locust hatching looks like an alien Aug 9, 2013 22:20:15 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2013 22:20:15 GMT -5 Your welcome. It is my pleasure. I wonder if that lime green alien will turn black like the link I sent you. Go find another and get the time lapse over the weekend. Please! I love your pictures!
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rockjunquie Global Moderator Member since March 2012 Posts: 35,015	locust hatching looks like an alien Aug 9, 2013 22:39:39 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rockjunquie on Aug 9, 2013 22:39:39 GMT -5 A giant EEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! Super cool, but hella nasty.

jakesrocks In Memoriam RIP Don Woodward AKA jakesrocks Member since April 2010 Posts: 12,696	locust hatching looks like an alien Aug 9, 2013 22:49:49 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jakesrocks on Aug 9, 2013 22:49:49 GMT -5 YUM !! High protean snacks. Catch a bunch of those puppies and stir fry them.
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locust hatching looks like an alien Aug 9, 2013 22:55:09 GMT -5

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Post by jamesp on Aug 9, 2013 22:55:09 GMT -5

You got at least 29,999,999,999 to 999,999,999,999 left to go Chuck.

Thank you, Tom Wildoner, for sharing these photos yesterday (June 9, 2013) at EarthSky Photo on Google+. Tom said that, yesterday, a large 17-year cicada hatch showed up in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The debut of a new generation of Brood II cicadas is in full bloom now in the U.S. Northeast. These 17-year cicadas live out most of their long lives as nymphs underground, but, each 17 years, they crawl out of the ground for a three-to-four-week festival of singing and mating. Afterwards, they die.

Early estimates suggested there might be as many as “30 billion” or “1 trillion” cicadas hatch in the U.S. Northeast this year. Estimates for the 2013 cicada population aren’t in yet, but, so far, reports suggest that the 2013 hatch of Brood II 17-year cicadas has been very localized, with some places getting many and other places very few. An article in the Huffington Post on June 7 suggested that:

Deleted Deleted Member Member since January 1970 Posts: 0	locust hatching looks like an alien Aug 9, 2013 23:14:03 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2013 23:14:03 GMT -5 But... sadly for Drummond Island Rocks and Jugglerguy Cicada mania not coming to Michigan in 2013 and that.................................. might be a good thing
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Deleted Deleted Member Member since January 1970 Posts: 0	locust hatching looks like an alien Aug 9, 2013 23:22:41 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2013 23:22:41 GMT -5 Awesome photos. Since you were the first living thing that it saw does it call you mommy and sit on your shoulder?

jamesp Cave Dweller Member since October 2012 Posts: 36,612	locust hatching looks like an alien Aug 10, 2013 0:18:49 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jamesp on Aug 10, 2013 0:18:49 GMT -5 And the other trillion will be right behind...