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Cicadas dig the dirt; then learn how to fly

Cicadas dig the dirt; then learn how to fly

I was out in my backyard Sunday, studying a tree branch with two dead Cicada exoskeletons on it, when some bird excrement dropped to the ground, missing my head by mere inches. Nature, she’s not always friendly. There on the trunk of our Ash tree were two dead insect skeletons. Or at least that’s the way they appeared to be. Husband and wife maybe on their way to the top of the tree, when lo and behold, they gave up the ghost and just died. Looked like something nasty had been feeding on them because there is this eighth- to a quarter-inch ...

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