Spring’s White Moose & Brood XIV
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 10th, 2008
The spring accounts for some of the strangest sightings.
With the warmer weather finally hitting the northern hemisphere, some strange animals and cryptids may be soon visible along roadways and trails across North America and Eurasia. Here (above) a white moose is seen in Norway.
Have any weird sights been reported in your area?
Meanwhile, the Brood XIV seventeen-year-cicadas are waking up in the midwestern, border, and a few eastern states of the USA. They were first reported in Ohio in 1804.
Their song will soon be a sweet and hauntingly familiar but short part of the evenings in those parts of the country.
I love to hear the cicada’s song every year. They also are excellent largemouth bass bait!
I have horrible childhood flashbacks to those cicadas. That could explain my dislike of insects…
The cicadas emerged the year that I was born and they emerged again the year I was 17. (I’m not gonna say how many times I have seen this brood altogether
). My cats and dogs get so fat from feasting on cicadas they can barely walk … those things must be good eating lol but I’m not gonna ever find out!
The 17-year cicadas make a lot of noise, but they really are an awesome phenomenon that you only experience a few times in your life. They also are actually good for trees and shrubs because they perform a sort of natural pruning. They don’t actually eat anything, but they lay their eggs in the ends of the twigs. That splits the ends of the twigs a bit, because when the larvae emerge from the eggs they drop to the ground and burrow in (to remain there feeding on sap and developing for another 17 years
) That leaves the trees and shrubs looking pretty ragged, but the next year they bloom BEAUTIFULLY. It also actually provides areation to the soil around the trees.
The cicadas are really beautiful insects and they look so … I dunno, prehistoric. I look forward to their emergence this year.