Another post featuring one of 64 kinds of change described by I Ching. This is #49.
Cicada 1
Cicada 2
“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future.” John F Kennedy
Seventeen years ago, I remember seeing them along what had been a fence row on the west property line. All the rest of the property had been filled and grated during construction.
Today, Sunday morning puttering involved “harvesting” catnip. Any suggestions on technique? It is expensive in pet stores, that motivated me to try growing it in the kitchen garden.
Kitchen garden 2013
Look what I found:
Cicada 1
Cicada 2
The exo-skeleton of cicadas were underneath the catnip foliage. Thank you Wikipedia for the science lesson! The common name is locust. Cicada is Latin for “tree cricket”. The documentation in Wikipedia is wonderful. There is a video half way down on the left of the molting process. On the right side of the webpage, there are four audio selections recorded in New Zealand, Japan, Greece and Texas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada
They are eaten in China, Latin America and Congo. I would rather have my eggplant.
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