Of Course! Miss havin a pickup, but a suv does haul quite a few green things. I see cars aall the time that you couldnt get anything else green in them and wonder if the car is driving itself. Beautiful moon tonite I spotted as it came up in Missouri. Butter yellow, full and STILL superbright.
Bugs! They're everywhere!
That truck garden is one up on anything I've tried, lol
Becky Jr - Yes , those mosquito dunks, or 'dunking donuts' as I call 'em, contain BT. Keep in mind that they only kill larvae but that's still a good thing to do. I try to throw them on my roof so they'll slide into the rain gutters. And I patrol the alley, donuts in hand, to look for things like garbage cans w/o lids but w/water. I recently learned that even if you've used a dunk in something that was wet and then after water eventually disappears and you're left with a dried out dunk, the dunk will still be good the next time it gets wet. (Ok. That was a run-on sentence but hope you got my drift.)
On some other thread, I know not where, I posted my homemade mosquito repellant. It's organic, cheap, and works for me. However, since we got a gully washer of a storm Sat. night on into Sun. around noon, I'm scared to even walk outside. I'm mosquito bait.
Back to cicadas, I could google this but y'all are prob. better resources. I've started seeing a bunch of the those dried molted cicada skeletons around. Does anyone know if they're an indicator of where the next batch of live cicadas will hatch. In the meantime, for you creative culinary experts, I did find these interesting tidbits.
"Cicadas have been eaten in China, Burma, Latin America, and the Congo. In North China, cicadas are skewered, deep fried or stir-fried as a delicacy."
—and—closer to home:
"In 2011, cicadas were incorporated into a single batch of ice cream in Columbia, Missouri at Sparky's. The ice creamery was advised by the public health department against making a second batch, a suggestion with which store owners complied. Other creative recipes include banana bread cicadas."
Cicadas seek certain trees to ground under- like June bugs are drawn to oaks especially. I dont remember which trees...They are fascinating to watch hatch, but I have no clue what they look like as larva either.
wow...just read about cicadas on Wikipedia, you people are SO distracting. ^_^
Ummm, distracting? I always called it ol timers...
I'm noticing the ectoskeletons hanging around now. They were so noisy then all of a sudden they stopped...I remember the noise from years past but it seemed louder this year, I wonder if it's bc we had so much more rain then the past years?
On to a different bug. Ive noticed June Bugs lately but isn't it a little late for June Bugs?