Buggin' Out!

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  1. Tony Page

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    I didn't find any cicadas but I did find this caterpillar it's called American Dagger caterpillar. They caution you not to touch the hairs can be a skin irritant. They turn into moths.
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    They also make a great soup.
    And they self-stir...for awhile, anyway ;)
     
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    did you just happen upon that?....something else to watch out for...yikes!
     
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    Actually my daughter was doing some weeding and she noticed it, she also found a hole in one of the beds which we think belongs to the Chipmunks that we've been seeing.
     
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  5. Teresa Levitt

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    you have such a love of nature that all creatures ...great and small will come to you.....
     
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    Well, so much for thinking that the cicadas were somehow drowned by all of the rain we have been having here in Alabama. They have arrived and are out there in the trees (or wherever) and singing the Cicada Song at the top of their little lungs.
     
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    that rain must have been the signal...soften the ground...up they will come!
     
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    No...(Yikes!:eek:)
     
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