My dog may have saved my life while herping

[Sonya610]

I've found at least 75 coppers this year. This is a special year for a certain cicada that only emerges like every 13 years and it is one of there favorite snacks.

Wow...good to know! We just had the little 13 year cicada's here, incredibly noisy little guys; sadly they are pretty much gone now.

Must be a real feast for the animals that like to snack on them, when they started departing for the afterlife there were dead cicada's everywhere! Sheesh even ending up in the isles inside the grocery store.

One in my backyard: