Found a live Cicada

[crimbfighter]

The trees are littered with Cicada shells, but the live ones are harder to find. Today I was relaxing in the hammock when I noticed a piece of bark on the tree trunk move. Upon closer inspection, it wasn't bark at all!

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[elizpage]

Cicadas freak me out.

 

[crimbfighter]

Cicadas freak me out.

They're not that bad in the realm of creepy bugs! At least they're large, so you can see them coming...

 

[Woodsman]

Very nice but it reminds me that I used to hear them every summer but have not heard one for a number of years now. Sad

 

[Designer]

Very nice but it reminds me that I used to hear them every summer but have not heard one for a number of years now. Sad

If the predominant strain in your area is the 17-year type, it takes 17 years for them to emerge anew.

We have several varieties around here, so we get them almost every summer.

 

[crimbfighter]

Very nice but it reminds me that I used to hear them every summer but have not heard one for a number of years now. Sad

Thanks!

Very nice but it reminds me that I used to hear them every summer but have not heard one for a number of years now. Sad

If the predominant strain in your area is the 17-year type, it takes 17 years for them to emerge anew.

We have several varieties around here, so we get them almost every summer.

I'm pretty sure we don't have any of the 17 year variety by me. Or if we do, they just blend in with the annual ones..

 

[Designer]

You'll know when you see the 17-year type. Their eyes are red.

Probably from not getting any nookie for 17 years.

 

[dennybeall]

Nice capture.

 

[crimbfighter]

You'll know when you see the 17-year type. Their eyes are red.

Probably from not getting any nookie for 17 years.

Do their eyes stay red after they emerge and molt? I was doing some landscaping a few weeks ago and dug up a bunch of Cicada's from the ground and every time I uncovered one, they would stare back at me with bright red eyes. I felt bad, because the ones that weren't dug up were covered with landscaping fabric, so they'll eventually die when they try to emerge..

Nice capture.

Thanks!

 

[Designer]

Do their eyes stay red after they emerge and molt? I was doing some landscaping a few weeks ago and dug up a bunch of Cicada's from the ground and every time I uncovered one, they would stare back at me with bright red eyes. I felt bad, because the ones that weren't dug up were covered with landscaping fabric, so they'll eventually die when they try to emerge..

I don't know.

The neighbors will have some.