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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Cicada Time
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 23:40:29 -0500
References: <3FB7B33B61F4432BA65E5FDC501FD4E9@jimnichols><0D1DC4C8-1D0E-4E7A-9B65-046E0A25848E@frozenlight.eu><9EDADC293A23462F838761AAD9A49F2D@jimnichols> <BANLkTinFog0MfacJ2nSJiV8kjQT7RZWLrg@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks, Marty.  I noted that pattern, as well.  The reflectors are a 
necessary evil when one lives on a corner lot, and there are no curbs. 
Black boxes are invisible at night.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marty Deveney" <benedenia at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Cicada Time


>I really like the pattern in the reflector to the bottom left against
> the pattern in the cicada's wing.
>
> This is one of the four north American Magicicada species.  Cicadas
> feed on plant sap.  There is a very cool animation here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cicada_molting_animated-2.gif of a
> cicada moulting.
>
> The males sing to attract mates.  The Australian "greengrocer' cicada
> is probably the loudest insect in the world:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclochila_australasiae
>
> Marty (who still remembers some undergraduate entomology)
>
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
> wrote:
>> Thanks, Nathan.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" 
>> <photo at frozenlight.eu>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Cicada Time
>>
>>
>>> Really well done, Jim! You are getting great results with that macro 
>>> lens.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> Alicante, Spain
>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>>>
>>> YNWA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 11, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are told that the 13-year Cicadas are coming out of hibernation in
>>>> Middle Tennessee. When I picked up the newspaper this morning, I saw 
>>>> one
>>>> clinging to the mailbox post.
>>>>
>>>> The first image shows the recently emerged Cicada clinging to its old
>>>> shell while drying out.
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Cicada+63.jpg.html
>>>>
>>>> The second image shows the size and markings of the Cicada.
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Cicada+64.jpg.html
>>>>
>>>> It is still amazing to me that all of that insect can emerge from a 
>>>> slit
>>>> in the back of the shell.
>>>>
>>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>
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