• krellor@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s actually hard, at least where I live, to capture a live cicada because they are up in trees. More likely the person made a joke using a dead one that fell down. In the fall I actually have to sweep them up I have so many to avoid a driveway of dead bugs. You can’t really tell in a picture of they are alive or dead.

    But to your point, yes, torturing live creatures wouldn’t be funny but I doubt that happened here.

    • Nechesh@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      They may live mostly in trees but it’s not uncommon for them to fly down into human reach.