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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Cicada Time
From: montoid at earthlink.net (Montie Talbert)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:11:33 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

+1  

Good photography is streaming out of my computer this morning.  ;-)



>>Jim
WOW !
Gary
 
> From: jhnichols at lighttube.net
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 09:26:06 -0500
> CC: olympus at thomasclausen.net
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Cicada Time
> 
> We are told that the 13-year Cicadas are coming out of hibernation in 
> Middle Tennessee. When I picked up the newspaper this morning, I saw one 
> clinging to the mailbox post.
> 
> The first image shows the recently emerged Cicada clinging to its old 
> shell while drying out.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Cicada+63.jpg.html
> 
> The second image shows the size and markings of the Cicada.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Cicada+64.jpg.html
> 
> It is still amazing to me that all of that insect can emerge from a slit 
> in the back of the shell.
> 
> Comments and critiques welcomed.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA



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