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Sick of Winter? Let's do some kid summer memories!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 407549" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>What are lightning bugs? I remember in the summer, the boys at school would catch cicadas and trade the different varieties with their mates. All alive, of course - one cicada yelling full volume in the classroom can be ear-splitting! There was an urban myth that the Black Prince cicadas were worth a lot of money, the drug companies would pay big bucks for them, dead or alive because there was some naturally occurring compound in their bodies that the drug companies wanted samples of. The Black Princes were the most beautiful, but also the rarest. I actually didn't see a Black Prince cicada until I was an adult and there was a brief plague of them. They were about half the size of the others, black with silver wings and three red diamond spots between the eyes, like rubies in a crown. But they could yell as loudly as the big ones!</p><p></p><p>Cicada varieties - Cherry Nose, Floury Baker, Yellow Monday, Green Grocer (the most common, the ones I'm listening to now). Many more. All these names came from Aussie children, names now accepted by scientists as the common names for the different species.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2001/02/17/2822486.htm" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2001/02/17/2822486.htm</a></p><p></p><p>It's wonderful comparing childhood summer memories.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 407549, member: 1991"] What are lightning bugs? I remember in the summer, the boys at school would catch cicadas and trade the different varieties with their mates. All alive, of course - one cicada yelling full volume in the classroom can be ear-splitting! There was an urban myth that the Black Prince cicadas were worth a lot of money, the drug companies would pay big bucks for them, dead or alive because there was some naturally occurring compound in their bodies that the drug companies wanted samples of. The Black Princes were the most beautiful, but also the rarest. I actually didn't see a Black Prince cicada until I was an adult and there was a brief plague of them. They were about half the size of the others, black with silver wings and three red diamond spots between the eyes, like rubies in a crown. But they could yell as loudly as the big ones! Cicada varieties - Cherry Nose, Floury Baker, Yellow Monday, Green Grocer (the most common, the ones I'm listening to now). Many more. All these names came from Aussie children, names now accepted by scientists as the common names for the different species. [url]http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2001/02/17/2822486.htm[/url] It's wonderful comparing childhood summer memories. Marg [/QUOTE]
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