[Penultima]

Adopted

In honor of all of the Periodical Cicadas emerging here in the central United States, I decided to make a collie inspired by their appearance!

Username: Restful Dead
Name: Kana
Gender: Female
Height: 17 in
Weight: 40 lbs
Color: Masked Black and Red Extreme Kiharara Brindle
Genotype: aka BB Ccch DD EmE hh Ii kbrky mm SS tt UU LL

Notes: Edits pass at 15%. This collie cannot compete in conformation in the title program.


Prompt: Tell me a fun fact about cicadas!

Ends May 27th

[BluTheDachshund]

Username: BluTheDachshund
Name: Chica // Humming Trees
Gender: Female
Prompt: They have five eyes! It's too many

[werepickle]

Username: werepickle
Name: MSK When Destruction Rains ‘Onslow’
Gender: male
Prompt:

The exact moment when cicadas emerge en masse is very calculated. It happens only when the ground eight inches below the surface reaches 64 degrees Fahrenheit — and not one degree higher of lower.

[Shenanergans]

Username: Shenanergans
Name: Melody
Gender: F
Prompt: Maybe a less than fun fact but
Cicadas have been afflicted with a transmittable disease called Massospora that essentially turns them into little zombies!
I've personally seen several continuing to exist despite their missing rears ^^'
fun

[wolfhaunt]

Username: wolfhaunt
Name: WH Call of the Cicadas // Cicada
Gender: DMAB
Prompt: Cicada buzzes/chirps can reach 100 decibels - that's louder than a motorcycle (95 db)!!!

[Restful Dead]

Username: Restful Dead
Name: Kana
Gender: Female
Prompt: Cicadas are capable of "switching off" their hearing so that when a whole bunch of them are singing together, they don't have to worry about deafening each other!

[Boghound]

Username: Boghound
Name: Things Are Buzzing at Boghound | Rhyncha
Gender: Male
Prompt: There are over 3000 species of cicada!

[Zentropy]

Username: Zentropy
Name: ZG Sweet Melody | Cicada
Gender: Female
Prompt: There are only 7 species of "periodical" cicadas, and they all reside in the USA!

[Julius525]

Username: Julius525
Name: Khepri
Gender: Male
Prompt: The name cicada is a direct derivation of the Latin cicada, meaning “tree cricket”

[kijauni]

Username: kijauni
Name: LoK Burrowed In The Dark I Cicadia
Gender: Female
Prompt:
Cicadas within the same brood don’t tend to hybridize because they look different and have different mating songs. Because of how little different broods interact, however, researchers are curious about whether Brood XIII and Brood XIX will hybridize during this year’s emergence. Although the likelihood of hybridization of these broods is low because of how rare it is in general, there is another reason Clay thinks there might not be much of it. “The region where they’re both emerging at the same time is not prime cicada habitat,” he said. “Compared to other parts of the country, where you can hardly go anywhere without being bombarded by cicadas, I don’t think that will be the case in central Illinois.”