Cicadas
Cicadas.
Very loud and there is no mistaking their presence. With that comes questions from my three year old scientist. What's that noise? What do they look like? Do they have eyes? Do they fly? The very important question: Will they sting me? And the favorite question: Why?
Needless to say, we "googled" cicadas and found lots of interesting things. I will answer one question of all the interesting things we found and that was Do they sting?
Cicadas do not sting. It's hard to see Cicadas because they hang out high in the trees singing their "songs", as we read about. If you've ever seen the shells that they leave on the trunks of trees, you will see what looks like a stinger. They do use that stinger to get sap from trees. We went to a park on Sunday and found several shells but forgot to bring them home with us. So, after Landon's nap yesterday, he thought we could go outside and see if we had any on our trees in the yard. We have several trees around our yard and we only found two shells. Landon had a great time looking for the cicada shells and decided to keep the two that we found. He put them in a toolbox that he had. We brought them inside and Landon made up all kinds of stories about the cicada shells. They were having a pool party. They were taking a nap. He was carrying them around everywhere in his toolbox. But, when it came to bedtime, he DID NOT want them to sleep with him in his room because, you know, they might just come back to life when you're sleeping.
Here are a few pictures of our cicada shell scavenger hunt.
Very loud and there is no mistaking their presence. With that comes questions from my three year old scientist. What's that noise? What do they look like? Do they have eyes? Do they fly? The very important question: Will they sting me? And the favorite question: Why?
Needless to say, we "googled" cicadas and found lots of interesting things. I will answer one question of all the interesting things we found and that was Do they sting?
Cicadas do not sting. It's hard to see Cicadas because they hang out high in the trees singing their "songs", as we read about. If you've ever seen the shells that they leave on the trunks of trees, you will see what looks like a stinger. They do use that stinger to get sap from trees. We went to a park on Sunday and found several shells but forgot to bring them home with us. So, after Landon's nap yesterday, he thought we could go outside and see if we had any on our trees in the yard. We have several trees around our yard and we only found two shells. Landon had a great time looking for the cicada shells and decided to keep the two that we found. He put them in a toolbox that he had. We brought them inside and Landon made up all kinds of stories about the cicada shells. They were having a pool party. They were taking a nap. He was carrying them around everywhere in his toolbox. But, when it came to bedtime, he DID NOT want them to sleep with him in his room because, you know, they might just come back to life when you're sleeping.
Here are a few pictures of our cicada shell scavenger hunt.
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