So yesterday, while cleaning up the backyard, I found myself a huge space-like looking creature - dead. I thought it was alive at first, the way it just laid there on the patio stone... looking up at me and all, but soon realized it was
as dead as a doornail.
I immediately started screaming, "Honey! Come look! I found me a space insect! Quick!"
Well, when he saw it, he immediately responded "That's not a space creature, that's a seecada!" "A see-what?" A
CICADA. Boy, did I ever felt like a reeeeetard! I knew of crickets and grasshoppers but not cicadas.
"Ah, those are the insects that makes so much noise all the time", I mumbled. (It was huge! It was almost as big as my pinkie finger!)
"Yes, those are the culprits. Now leave it alone and throw it away in the dirt."
Well, he might as well have been talking to the tree 'cause I used a stick to poke it and flip it around, turn it upside down and examined it more closely...