hm hm hm hm!!! okay, so he figures the mud is not incubating it!! there has to be other methods that will produce different results!!

the next morning (today, the sixth) when he sees the results are the same with the mud, he will try to get close to the surly stump to place the cicada on it. cicadas live in trees, trees were the focus of his weird dream, the trees in his dream were maples, the stump is a maple.