http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/07/29/carpenter-ants-devour-newly-emerged-annual-cicada/ Are we experts yet? Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/07/29/carpenter-ants-devour-newly-emerged-annual-cicada/comment-page-1/#comment-10900 TmbrWlvsTchr Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:46:23 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=18226#comment-10900 While out on my 2nd floor deck, my cats alerted me to some fluttering down below in the garden. I could see leaves moving, but not the cause. After scanning the area with a pair of binoculars, I saw a cicada flitting its wings wildly and flopping like a fish out of water. It was still quite alive as a hoard of ants attacked. This was unsettling to watch, but I resisted the urge to change Mother Nature's course and didn't "rescue" the cicada. Thanks for posting your picture and commentary so that I could hop online and confirm what I had witnessed. While out on my 2nd floor deck, my cats alerted me to some fluttering down below in the garden. I could see leaves moving, but not the cause. After scanning the area with a pair of binoculars, I saw a cicada flitting its wings wildly and flopping like a fish out of water. It was still quite alive as a hoard of ants attacked. This was unsettling to watch, but I resisted the urge to change Mother Nature’s course and didn’t “rescue” the cicada. Thanks for posting your picture and commentary so that I could hop online and confirm what I had witnessed.

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