A cicada landed on my knee. When I moved, it flew into a wall and then sat still with its face against the wall until I coaxed it on to the box in the picture. I took it outside, and it flew off.
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@PlacidPenguin Except this kind is probably an annual cicada. To my knowledge, the periodical cicadas all have red/orange eyes and wing veins. This is the more common kind that has broods that hatch every year.
@jst1ofknd
A cicada landed on my knee
I’m thinking that it had to pee
and once it had relieved its all
it smashed itself into a wall.
I think that bug was sightly crazed
or, now relieved, just forward weighed
it then took off with gobsmacked brain
head down, tail up, to ram again
Yeah tortured rhymes, its after 1AM and what the hell am I doing posting now?
I sat upon my sofa,
With my Kindle on my knee,
I’m reading Deepak Chopra,
And watching some TV;
I’ve got my snacks and my remote,
An adult bev’rage too,
This evening’s time I shall devote
To nothing I need to do.
CHORUS
Oh! Cicada, Oh don’t you land on me,
I wasn’t going to move but now
There’s a cicada on my knee.
I jumped and shook it off me,
No bigger bug I’d seen.
It flew over my coffee,
And landed on my screen.
I spied a cardboard box,
I think it came from Meh.
Gave it a couple knocks,
To get that bug in there.
Oh! Cicada, Oh don’t you land on me,
I wasn’t going to move but then
I had a cicada on my knee.
While I held him captive,
Within that paper jail
I thought I’d photograph him
And post him up for sale.
I took the pic but then I thought
The price he’d fetch’d be low
But I took that picture anyway
And then I let him go.
Oh! Cicada, Oh don’t you land on me,
I had nothing to do but then
I had a cicada on my knee.
@duodec@jst1ofknd
eonfifty
looks pretty nifty
or so, the cicada said.
She’s not my type
nor of my species
but I’d love her to share my bed.
But practically thinking
The dynamics are stinking
It simply could never work out
So I’ll sit on her knee
and see what I see
because I’m a cicada lout.
@djslack@jst1ofknd haha… gotta tell you… was in a group text with my mom and some sibs a few hrs before you posted this and she said… I’m laying in bed with my popcorn and reading Deepak Chopra
I planted milkweed at the weekend place. Monarch caterpillars defoliated the plants and started eating the pods and stems. I guess I need to plant another one next spring.
There’s a table on Wikipedia which shows when each brood (cycle) will next emerge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas#Broods
@PlacidPenguin Except this kind is probably an annual cicada. To my knowledge, the periodical cicadas all have red/orange eyes and wing veins. This is the more common kind that has broods that hatch every year.
@thejackalope
Oh goody. I learned something today.
Now I’m free until Tuesday.
I wonder what he/she is thinking!
@unmlobo300 “I’ve been asleep for 17 years. I need some coffee.”
/image morning coffee
To all creative mehtizens I issue a challenge. Write a song with “A Cicada on my Knee” or the like.
@jst1ofknd
A cicada landed on my knee
I’m thinking that it had to pee
and once it had relieved its all
it smashed itself into a wall.
I think that bug was sightly crazed
or, now relieved, just forward weighed
it then took off with gobsmacked brain
head down, tail up, to ram again
Yeah tortured rhymes, its after 1AM and what the hell am I doing posting now?
@jst1ofknd
You’ll probably figure out the tune.
I sat upon my sofa,
With my Kindle on my knee,
I’m reading Deepak Chopra,
And watching some TV;
I’ve got my snacks and my remote,
An adult bev’rage too,
This evening’s time I shall devote
To nothing I need to do.
CHORUS
Oh! Cicada, Oh don’t you land on me,
I wasn’t going to move but now
There’s a cicada on my knee.
I jumped and shook it off me,
No bigger bug I’d seen.
It flew over my coffee,
And landed on my screen.
I spied a cardboard box,
I think it came from Meh.
Gave it a couple knocks,
To get that bug in there.
Oh! Cicada, Oh don’t you land on me,
I wasn’t going to move but then
I had a cicada on my knee.
While I held him captive,
Within that paper jail
I thought I’d photograph him
And post him up for sale.
I took the pic but then I thought
The price he’d fetch’d be low
But I took that picture anyway
And then I let him go.
Oh! Cicada, Oh don’t you land on me,
I had nothing to do but then
I had a cicada on my knee.
@djslack @jst1ofknd Oh Susanna! I haven’t heard that song in years.
@duodec @jst1ofknd I can imagine this as a peppy, Johnny Cash style song.
@duodec @jst1ofknd
eonfifty
looks pretty nifty
or so, the cicada said.
She’s not my type
nor of my species
but I’d love her to share my bed.
But practically thinking
The dynamics are stinking
It simply could never work out
So I’ll sit on her knee
and see what I see
because I’m a cicada lout.
@djslack @jst1ofknd haha… gotta tell you… was in a group text with my mom and some sibs a few hrs before you posted this and she said… I’m laying in bed with my popcorn and reading Deepak Chopra
@jst1ofknd
I finally got around to trying your lyrics to “Oh, Susannah” @djslack.
https://www.pscp.tv/w/cGpwHzFlV0t5TXp3QkJlS0F8MUJSSmpxb2d3endHd9MU_0JOYeK1iOBVDS__piCpP1160bjDSFU57OuKiQyD
@djslack @eonfifty I like that you can hear a cicada singing along.
@eonfifty i believe you have a hit on your hands! I forgot all about this, it’s very cool that you did it!
@RiotDemon
I think that was a cricket
/giphy crickets
I know they love our pine trees to cling to and shed. What do your knees look like? lol
@lseeber I think I have acceptable, perhaps even nice looking, knees.
/image nice knees
@eonfifty Agree !
Close the box with it inside and ship it as your aMehrican exchange.
@ELUNO You volunteering to be paired with @eonfifty?
@ELUNO That would be cruel… to the cicada
@ELUNO @eonfifty
You could always go out and find their empty shells and mail them.
@ELUNO @eonfifty @jst1ofknd Just pull them off the pine trees, lol.
I planted milkweed at the weekend place. Monarch caterpillars defoliated the plants and started eating the pods and stems. I guess I need to plant another one next spring.
@sammydog01
Jealous.
Barely any butterflies by me.
@sammydog01 yes you do. Milk weed is the ONE plant they lay their eggs on.
As far as bugs go, cicadas and june bugs are either:
a) the worst flyers
b) the biggest jerks
Y’all can fly in any direction…why you gotten be crashing into my head all the time?
Everytime I read this thread title, I sing/song it like the “A potato flew around my room” vine.