Sunday 2 September 2012
Cicadas
Japan has a thing about bugs. Bug collecting for Japanese children is akin to going to the swimming pool / beach for Australian children.
See here for "bugs as pets" information.
http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/966/Japanese+Pets.html
Cicadas are deep in the literary culture of Japan as well...
Rurousha has done much more justice to the topic than I could (or would want to.)
http://rurousha.blogspot.jp/2012/08/a-temporal-thing-called-cicada.html
The other day I was out with Hiro's parents. (They were here for a week and we did a LOT of walking) They are avid bug spotters. I am not sure that I had ever seen a live cicada chirping in a tree... they spotted them the whole way along the Shakuji gawa.
The Shakuji gawa
The shrieking at the end is not me....
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Look at the Shakujigawa! I was there in spring; now it's all green and shady and ... noisy. Crikey, it's noisy. I got a headache just listening to the videos! ^^
Usually I see lots of cicadas on trees and walls and on my balcony and I wouldn't think anything of it, but this year I've rarely seen them for some reason. Yesterday I heard one on my balcony and grabbed my camera to take a picture because they've become exotic. I couldn't find it and it finally flew out from the rosemary. They're shy all of a sudden?
They are noisy! And I still can't tell them all apart by their voices...
We haven't had many near our apartment building this year - nothing to do with the biwa trees being cut down for a monstrous mansion building I'm sure.... but they are prolific on the Shakuji River near here.
I am impressed you can spot them in trees... are you a fisherwoman too by any chance Theresa?
Yes, I can spot the fish too. My brains are very primitive and I have excellent peripheral vision, can instantly spot anything that moves. Too bad this is the 21st century and I cannot hunt and fish for a living. Darn.
By the way, it usually takes me at least four tries before I can correctly type in the characters to get my comment approved. Maybe a chimpanzee could do better.
Interesting... I am beginning to see a correlation. I am over evolved and need glasses to distinguish between Japanese and English on my keitai these days.
I am hearing you very loud and clear on the recaptchas. It used to drive me nuts until I saw the explanation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQl6jUjFjp4
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