Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road

Tag: Periodical cicadas

  • Cicada Post Addendum

    I’m like a fungus; you can’t get rid of me. ~Adam Baldwin Yesterday’s blog on Brood XIX was a brief summary of what I have been doing the past several evenings as I marvel at this occurrence. There are two things I had hoped to find in this year’s emergence after reading more about these Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn

  • That Sound

    Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests that they are about to die. ~Matsuo Basho I imagine you are deluged with social media posts and news reports about the spectacle that those of us in this area are living with right now – the emergence of Brood XIX of periodical cicadas. I hesitated adding one Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn