Post AxnIIyLmc9fArciKx6 by troberts@theblower.au
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(DIR) Post #AxnHeZHwNJA7YIeOgL by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-02T11:15:20Z
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shhhh!My husband is developing an obsession with cicadas. He's always liked insects, but never really found "his bugs" but I think the mysterious goggle eye'd cicadas may have his heart. I'm obtaining and leaving field guides in strategic locations about the apartment. wish me luck!(and if you have not yet found *your* bugs keep searching, there are bugs for each of us. )
(DIR) Post #AxnIIyLmc9fArciKx6 by troberts@theblower.au
2025-09-02T11:20:14Z
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@futurebird #CicadasOfMastodon https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/115099292275614135
(DIR) Post #AxnJBy0lZn0vjv6hcW by willyyam@mastodon.social
2025-09-02T11:32:30Z
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@futurebird Good luck!I think there may be surplus of bugs, given the demand ;-)
(DIR) Post #AxnK5x66A4gd7bITKK by oblomov@sociale.network
2025-09-02T11:42:39Z
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@futurebird *drumroll* and now it's time for …THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER*drumroll*
(DIR) Post #AxnKP7i6vUyvXWDbVo by Brynawel@mastodon.social
2025-09-02T11:46:07Z
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@futurebird I found my bug already. It's the cuddle bug in its feline form.
(DIR) Post #AxnLJCO8ilymGScFc0 by Faintdreams@dice.camp
2025-09-02T11:56:16Z
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@futurebird these plushies of cicadia might interest you then perhaps as a gift? 🙂https://store.dftba.com/products/tyler-thrasher-cicada-plushie
(DIR) Post #AxnMh5uAZscd3pYWKe by evan@cosocial.ca
2025-09-02T12:11:47Z
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@futurebird "there are bugs for each of us" I like that! I need to find my bugs. Currently I have a pretty bad relationship with one bug, Popillia japonica, and I could probably use some friends.
(DIR) Post #AxnNDZwyPDY3VkMCJc by silvermoon82@wandering.shop
2025-09-02T12:17:38Z
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@futurebird Do you have dragonflies in NYC? They're probably my favourite insects. Jewel coloured, they hover with cool fairy wings, and their main diet is bugs that bite humans. We're getting more and bugger dragonflies in the city in recent years, but away from civilisation they really do thrive.
(DIR) Post #AxnTB5ytSTnzi3SE0u by farah@beige.party
2025-09-02T13:24:26Z
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@futurebird Can I appreciate bugs from afar?
(DIR) Post #AxnV4lTH07fSGmlzfM by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-09-02T13:45:41Z
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@futurebird I think you mean "shhh shhh shhh shhh SHHH SHHH *SHHH SHHH SHHH SHHH SHHH*"(I grew up in Virginia and for me, that is the sound of summer and I miss hearing it up here.)
(DIR) Post #AxnVUiagKidKrhc86C by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-02T13:50:25Z
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@farah Yes! Some of them may need their space. But macro photos where you can see their eyes and what they are doing can make them less intimidating because you come to recognize they aren't just running around startling everyone for no reason. (exceptions may apply)
(DIR) Post #AxnVxJFNdg50f4HeYC by lasse@social.tchncs.de
2025-09-02T13:55:33Z
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@futurebird I prefer spiders over bugs in general, but my spirit animal is a bug for sure: Armadillidium depressum 🫣
(DIR) Post #AxnW7m9733gtBZLJNw by xris@ecoevo.social
2025-09-02T13:57:26Z
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@farah Try binoculars! Good for the larger insects, like butterflies, bumble bees, and such. If you can get your hands on some close focus bins, they can get you within a couple of feet for smaller critters.Not ideal for photography, but you can enjoy them and get to know them while keeping some distance.@futurebird#BugWatching #NatureLovers
(DIR) Post #AxnWVxmzPXGgFKWp9c by falcennial@mastodon.social
2025-09-02T14:01:48Z
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@futurebird 😂😂💯
(DIR) Post #AxnYvQIakWF3ocZtr6 by catmisgivings@stranger.social
2025-09-02T14:28:49Z
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@futurebird my bugs find meIt's really pretty uncannyI hit the point in the party where I start to zone out a little on accident and I may be alone except for a praying mantis or a spiderso I chat with them a little lol.
(DIR) Post #AxnaAaK5rU0pCe4eNk by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-09-02T14:42:47Z
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@futurebirdWe have giant cicadas around here, and I never get to see them. Except that (1) one night a giant cicada entered my window on the 7th floor (the nearest tree was 3-4 stories tall); and (2) last month I almost stepped on one, on a concrete sidewalk between two patches of grass (by night but with some lighting)
(DIR) Post #AxnaD7rs77Jnos5LKS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-02T14:43:15Z
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@lffontenelle nooo!
(DIR) Post #AxncOBmQ6odr2vwEQy by Enema_Cowboy@dotnet.social
2025-09-02T15:02:07Z
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@nonblobdev @futurebird Careful with that Cicada. :Dhttps://theresashauntedhistoryofthetri-state.blogspot.com/2025/06/cicada-used-in-armed-robbery.html
(DIR) Post #AxndZPW5TdAKmzDIHo by Guillotine_Jones@beige.party
2025-09-02T15:20:52Z
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@futurebird Your husband is making an excellent choice in bugs @Futurebird.
(DIR) Post #AxneaH1MeGiIgUonZo by SouthFresh@mastodon.social
2025-09-02T15:32:14Z
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@futurebird Level this up, start leaving cicadas in strategic locations about the apartment.
(DIR) Post #AxntMoxdAAk3Cm7DBQ by draeath@infosec.exchange
2025-09-02T17:42:45Z
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@futurebird there are just too many awesome insects to choose from!Hmm. Ants, bees/wasps, or dragonflies, if I had to narrow it down at the moment. Beetles too?
(DIR) Post #AxptRlzG2G6xkK9pHU by claralistensprechen5th@friendica.rogueproject.org
2025-09-03T17:25:41Z
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@futurebirdMy main but has always been and will always be the Monarch Butterfly but it doesn't exist in a vacuum--there are other bugs which affect it and so I have a lot of bugs as "my bug".
(DIR) Post #AxqEcYwKyz4VVJmHPU by NickSchwanck@aus.social
2025-09-03T21:25:26Z
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@futurebird Cicadas are awesome.
(DIR) Post #AxqEp8HXPLtkaegi6i by FolksVelo@mas.to
2025-09-03T21:06:36Z
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@EricLawton @futurebird i remember the first time i saw a wooly aphid ..i was seven and was sure i'd seen a real fairy
(DIR) Post #AxqEp9BY36hXOMtRPU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-03T21:27:41Z
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@FolksVelo @EricLawton I'll tell you a secret... you did!
(DIR) Post #AxqIJ6Q1CQmlMTdYK8 by jakobtougaard@mastodon.online
2025-09-03T22:06:45Z
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@futurebird I think my favourite is the yellow underwing. Studied their ultrasonic hearing for my master's project back in the last millennium...https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Moth_Large_Yellow_Underwing_-_Noctua_pronuba_%2828814950448%29.png/1280px-Moth_Large_Yellow_Underwing_-_Noctua_pronuba_%2828814950448%29.png
(DIR) Post #AyGSMfTm6OwyVRKFlo by Karen5Lund@mastodon.social
2025-09-16T13:01:56Z
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@futurebird William T. Davis, one of the founders of the organization that became the Staten Island Museum, was an expert on cicadas. The Museum hosted an exhibit a few years ago which has since closed, but there's still some good stuff online. Davis’s birthday is October 12, if you want to celebrate. (BTW, a former curator at the Museum told me Davis preferred the pronunciation ci-CAH-da, not ci-CAY-da.)#Cicadas #FindYourBug https://www.statenislandmuseum.org/exhibitions/jennifer-angus-magicicada/