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Published: 2009-01-30 03:00:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 3248; Favourites: 92; Downloads: 0
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Such strange insects but very cool. Harmless yet people freak when they see them. They can't bite, sting, scratch or do anything except vibrate and make a loug ass noise
and they have cool eyes
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i looks so real the wings look like they are transparent the shading is super amazing
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Well, what is the moral of this story? People are crybabies xD
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I love cicadas... I'll never forget the summer I spent in southern france, when I heard them for the first time
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Ah, that head is one of the most mundanely, deliciously alien structures on this planet.
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Really awsome! 
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Ive heard of these, but never seen one. I love your care and precision in your drawing.
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Thanks,
Never seen one?? I've seen them since I was like 10. It was quite a while since I saw them again until just recently, but you can always hear them during summer. The annual green/darkbrown/black ones live 2 to 10 years underground emerging at random, so you usually see some every summer. I know the 17 year cicada is like black/orange with red eyes, and obviously only come out every 17 years.. all at once, they live for a day and breed and then die while the larvae hibernate underground and appear 17 years later. kinda crazy
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I think it's the size and the fact that they vibrate. It makes you think it's trying to bite. Very skilled rendering.
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Yea, people hear the noise, they think of Bees and Wasps and probably just see a big flying insect that makes them think it's dangerous. It's funny how slow they are when not flying.
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Whoa, this looks very good, you've captured so many details that escape the common eye.
I'm not scared of cicadas, and I even like them, but once when I was relaxing on vacation in Croatia (beautiful sea) one landed on my hand when I wasn't looking, and for some reason I closed my fingers, it started buzzing and I freaked out knocking my lunch ><
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haha,
yea the buzzing can feel a little eerie, making you think it's going to do something but they're like sloths of the insect world.
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well, I didn't know what was in my hand at first (I was looking the other way), that's why I freaked out >< Normally I let those things walk all over my as long as I know where they are.
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I freakin' love Cicada's! Sometimes I can find their shells they leave on trees! They're so pretty! but don't be in a place with a lot of'em making their noise or your ears'll ring for a few days..
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Yea, we had a bunch of their shedded exoskeletons all over our wooden fence this past summer. That's another really cool thing about them. Back in a park where I used to live, the trees would have like 20 shells around the base.
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