Wordless Wednesday–The Dog Days

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What are you looking at?

Hanging in the spider’s web, about mid-photo, is the carapace of the dog day cicada nymph.  That’s one of the reasons why these summer days are called “dog days.”

The original reason,  of course,  is the sighting of Sirius,  the dog star, in the summer sky.

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