Third Cicada Species Documented for CB

By the light of the silvery moon, the average amateur naturalist, accompanied only by quarrelsome pets, attempted to figure out what’s eating up all the Turk’s Cap. Equipped with a headlamp, a butterfly net, a digital camera and some curiosity the intrepid amateur naturalist soon discovered lots of roaches on the Turk’s Cap. It’s probably these roaches eating the Turk’s Cap Crumby figured. But just to be certain I better fix a roach or two up with a tiny colostomy bag. Where did I put those tiny colostomy bags?

Besides the roaches, Crumby found one moth on the Turk’s Cap. Crumby deftly captured that moth in the buttterfly net. But it escaped before Crumby took its picture. Then Crumby espied this cicada newly emergent from its old exoskeleton. Turns out, at this stage the average cicada lacks much pigmentation. Absent pigmentation, cicadas all look alike, much like young blondes.

Luckily for Crumby, a cicada was apparent this morning only a foot or so removed from the location of the previous evening’s exoskeleton husk plus the newly emerged. I bet this is the same cicada maybe, only now, it has eaten up plenty of Turk’s Cap. The Turk’Cap meal has allowed it to gain some pigmentation. Now I can easily identify this cicada as Tibicen superba, the third cicada species documented for the CB.