Swamp Cicadas: Sleep, sex, and death.

August 20th: This fearsome-looking creature is a swamp cicada. His species makes human reproduction look rational and easy. Cicadas are born from eggs, then they stay under ground from 2-17 years until they reach adulthood. Then they come out for one brief summer fling, create the next generation, then die. This one may have been having that last figurative cigarette, before saying goodbye to reproduction and this world.

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