The Animals That Aren't Dogs or Cats Thread

[Worf factor9]

I miss hearing cicadas in the summer.

Those are the "annuals".

These 17 year bastards come out at an estimated 12 & 1/2 million per acre. It will be Biblical. But they don't eat everything in sight like true loucusts, all they are interested in is screwin' and the diggin' back into the ground... and fuckin' up my wind-shield when they splat upon it..

"It's all boys calling girls," said entomologist Eric Day of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University extension. "First you get a few here and there, then what happens is they start chorusing — there's so many of them that the cicada calls all combine in this huge chorus."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/world/brood-x-cicada-2021-scn/index.html

The birds and fish will gorge and have a field day, but I have a bee-bonnet ready to go cuz the sound of a mower attracts them.

 

[Worf factor9]

We also used to have fireflies

We have fewer but I still see them.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

No, when I was a kid we'd hear them all the time and we'd see their bodies. I saw a few live ones when camping in North Georgia.

We also used to have fireflies but I haven't seen any in at least 20 years.

Yeah, I only see very few fireflies on the warmest summer nights. Used to see thousands, At least in the Chicago land area, could be due to the cooler summers. I hope they aren't going extinct like so many other species.

I'm pretty sure some summers what I was hearing were locusts. It wasn't always the 17 year thing.

 

[publiusr]

Dr. Zaius?

Me outsmart general. Now whose back is silverest?

Not me!

 

[Colonel Midnight]

Here’s some Hawaiian Bigeyes (‘āweoweo) chilling out inside the Sea Tiger wreck...



Cheers,
-CM-

 

[JD]

I miss hearing cicadas in the summer.

I don't mind a few, but they can get really annoying when you start getting huge groups of them all going off at once.

 

[Worf factor9]

I don't mind a few, but they can get really annoying when you start getting huge groups of them all going off at once.

Indeed. They are an overly loud boy band.

that only has one thing in...

 

[Colonel Midnight]

This guy here is called a Unicornfish (kala), for some reason...



Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Sable.

 

[auntiehill]

What a precious face! ..........with wolverine death claws.........

 

[StarCruiser]

And that is why I will NOT wear fur, unless survival absolutely depends on it... Can't imagine murdering a beautiful creature just for it's fur.

 

[Worf factor9]

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https://www.theguardian.com/environ...otter-feared-extinct-in-argentina-pops-up-aoe

 

[Colonel Midnight]

Anyone else remember that one hit wonder by Rockwell, ‘I’ve Got This Feeling... Somebody’s Watching Me?’



Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Gary Mitchell]

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Sinful

 

[Non Sync]

I


Have


fallen


and


can


not


get


up!



Can


you


help


me,


please?

 

[Worf factor9]

A pole-dancer.

Throw $$.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

Here are a couple of Milletseed Butterflyfish just swimming about...



Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Gary Mitchell]

The fox and the hound.

 

[JD]

There, that's better.