Brooklyn cicadas
The highlight of every summer for me has always been the emergence of our annual cicadas. Last year, Brooklyn was disappointed to learn that urban development had severely lowered [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/cicadas-new-york-brood-II.html?mid=twitter_dailyintel] the numbers of our brood of periodical cicadas, known
Cicada Killers
Looks like this (not so) little cicada killer [/blog/animals/cicadas-their-killers] may have met his match on East 16th off Dorchester. Most likely, he just reached the end of his short, 2-month life [http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/the-cicada-killers-are-coming/277688/] . Somewhere, there’s a very relieved annual-cycle
Cicada Killers
You’re probably familiar with cicadas [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada], which are the insects responsible for the rattling buzz that you hear throughout the summer. This one above was spotted by neighbor Donald Loggins on his spiked tomato plant. But do you know about cicada killers? Cicada killers