Okay, more true confessions...I am terrified of cicadas, those shiny green hard cased bugeyed creatures that crawl out of the ground in August into trees and screech and scream and...well, you get the picture. When I was a 13-year-old teen carhop at an A&W rootbeer stand, the cicadas would be attracted to the bright lights of the parking lot and fly like torpedos--often they'd zoom right into me and scare the wits out of me. One time I was so startled I tossed the tray of rootbeer mugs I was carrying right out of my hands and up in the air. Still today, a cicada or june bug (also hardcased zoomers) can reduce me to a jibbering idiot cringing for cover. In fact, when the june bugs come out in early spring I will not sit out on our back porch, a treat I will have been longing for all winter. Oh, dread! ~G