It's been a Big Bug Summer this year, by which I mean a big summer for bugs and a summer for big bugs. Even
this month's Secret Science Club lecture was about insects, and typically large ones to boot. This weekend, Big Bug Summer got sexy when I found a couple of
cicadas, each about as big as your thumb, making the 'beast with two abdomens':
I have to admit somewhat sheepishly that I can't supply a Latin binomial for these (
true) bugs, but
cicada identification seems pretty daunting for the layperson. Poking around
the NY State DEP website, I saw a picture which suggests that these might be
Neotibicen canicularis.
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