A shell of its former self

Cicada casing on East 10th Street via Grant Shaffer...

Sounds as if there has been a lot of mating in Tompkins Square Park this summer.

Summer ruined before summer even starts

[What could have been]

NO CICADAS.

That's right. As the Daily Intelligencer put it in a headline today:

The Cicada Invasion of New York City Has Been Canceled

Boo!

We were counting on swarms of cicadas to peacefully emerge in Tompkins Square Park.

We were counting on posting hundreds of cicada posts. Hundreds.

Now what are we supposed to write about?

Updated 11:30:

Maybe it will be the Summer of Bees again?