This is Mini-B, sitting atop the blower that we use to clear the property. It's pretty fun to get the blower up and going and sweep the fallen leaves and jungle detritus back into the forest. Kenneth does the blowing during the weekdays, and we do it during the weekends. Lately, a lot of cicadas have been coming out, and they are attracted by the sound of the blower, and Kenneth is a little squeamish about being bombarded by the critters, that can get up to 2-3 inches long and nearly an inch wide. Enter Mini-B. Your average cicada gestates in the ground for 17 years, so I've been told, and then comes out for 22 days before it dies. Mini-B is fascinated with the buzzing buggers, and she'll run up on one and snap it up in her jaws before it can get away. Then she'll swat it back and forth, drool on it, swat it some more and then give it a good chewing. These poor things waited 17 years for this? We are breaking Mini-B of her chucharra habit, though it's not always easy, when they're just sitting on the ground, vibrating and making a whale of a racket that she finds very hard to ignore.Alas, Mini-B didn't appreciate the sound of the blower, so Kenneth was on his own to face the cicadas during his stint.
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