tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538921257299988738.post2773812865171657755..comments2023-06-06T04:58:46.713-07:00Comments on Oryctology: Brood XIXNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10293693723899837239noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538921257299988738.post-48746054607679949452012-10-28T18:40:31.395-07:002012-10-28T18:40:31.395-07:00Which school did you attend?
Yah, I'm too fam...Which school did you attend?<br /><br />Yah, I'm too familiar with the reality of that saying considering my long-term monitoring/entomology mentor died in Dec '98 at a youngish age of 57. I would have liked to have experienced V with her, among many other things.<br /><br />In preparation for the emergence, I read as much as I could about the cicadas, never having experienced them myself since I grew up in CA. A couple of wisecracking fellas on a morning news radio show publicly called me out when I mentioned how newly emerged adults were supposed to taste like shrimp. So the dare was there, and I had to do it. They were squishy and had a surprisingly nutty-bark flavor... er, the cicadas, not the radio guys. They tasted particularly good fried in bacon grease, but that goes without saying.<br /><br />You could always hit the road next year and go see some.<br /><br />Go Giants!Katie (Nature ID)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17730655720390625839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538921257299988738.post-1800189274904192692012-10-28T15:31:31.877-07:002012-10-28T15:31:31.877-07:00Hi Katie,
This blog gets so little traffic I rar...Hi Katie, <br /><br />This blog gets so little traffic I rarely think to check for comments. <br /><br />That's an awesome story about the brood V. How did they taste? I barely missed that one too since I moved to northern Ohio in the fall of 1999 to go to college. <br /><br />Yeah so much in nature happens on an annual cycle or shorter, it is neat to try to think about the longer rhythms. Donald Peattie writes in <i>Almanac for Moderns</i> "An old entomologist can never be sure that he will live to see them again."<br /><br />Funny that you should mention Darren's blog since his original version of Tetrapod Zoology (Ver 1 as he calls it) was what inspired me to start blogging waaay back in 2006. I've had the good fortune to meet Darren once and we are friends, at least in the Facebook sense. Incredibly brilliant guy.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10293693723899837239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538921257299988738.post-37374400255311915842012-10-15T06:54:02.392-07:002012-10-15T06:54:02.392-07:00It's too bad you barely missed the emergence. ...It's too bad you barely missed the emergence. It's odd to think that far into the future for when you will see another. Maybe your daughter will have a sibling? 2024 and 2025 should be interesting years with the 2 different broods, if you're still in Nashville.<br /><br />I was in OH when V came out in 1999. I convinced some older volunteers at the museum I worked to go out to the local arboretum with me at night to witness the emergence from the ground, because as I delicately put it, they might not be alive for the next emergence (unfortunately, this already came true). We ate some fresh young adults with lemon cookies and ginger ale chasers. It was quite an outing.<br /><br />I came to your blog, because I thought you might be interested in this "commercial" blog: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/<br /><br />Hope all is well.Katie (Nature ID)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17730655720390625839noreply@blogger.com