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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Noisy Insect (image)
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:42:16 -0500
References: <380-2200995403946375@earthlink.net>

remarkable photographic capture Al.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
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http://www.imagist.com
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On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Al Crouch wrote:

> All:
>
> We have them in Texas, too.   I was lucky enough to find one  
> emerging from
> its shell one night on the outside wall of my garage.   Had seen a  
> lot of
> shells before, but not the process.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/n87c27
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Al+Crouch/free+at+last.jpg.html
>
> :Al Crouch
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>
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Jefffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com>
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: 9/3/2009 6:39:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Noisy Insect
>>
>> If they are bad this year, they will be bad 17 years from now  
>> too. :-)
>>
>> On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jeffery,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the technical details. As I mentioned before, with my
>>> high frequency hearing loss from years of exposure to noisy
>>> compressor plant equipment, they don't bother me too much unless I
>>> go outside with my hearing aid in place. Then, the noise is very
>>> noticeable.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jefffery Smith"
> <jsmith342 at gmail.com
>>>>
>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:00 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Noisy Insect
>>>
>>>
>>>> Their method of making that noise is  interesting. They have a
>>>> drum- head like diaphragm on either side of the body with 4 folds
>>>> in it.  Pulling on the diaphragm (with a muscle) causes 4
>>>> consecutive  "banging" noises, like squeezing an empty plastic
>>>> water bottle. They  alternate doing the left and right side
>>>> diaphragms, and that means two  muscle contractions cause 8 loud
>>>> banging noises. In the oaks down here  in the Garden District, it
>>>> sounds like people with chain saws.
>>>>
>>>> By the way, these are the bugs whose nymph stage lasts 17 years.
>>>> After  17 years, the nymph crawls up the side of a tree, and later
>>>> hatches  out of a skin to become an adult cicada. The "shells" that
>>>> someone  mentioned is the cast-off nymph shell.
>>>>
>>>> Jeffery
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 3, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I came across this noisy insect on my way to the mail box this
>>>>> morning. I have not yet established his identity. Can anyone help
>>>>> identify this fellow?  I should have stopped down further, but he
>>>>> was not cooperative.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Noisy+Insect.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Feedback appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>>
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