Cicada, empty shell . . .
(Magicicada
septendecim) Native to North America.
Also known as the Seventeen-year Locust. This is an incredibly noisy and
strange
creature! (Photograph has been rotated 90 degrees to the left for better
viewing.)
The adult cicadas live but a short prairie summer. The larvae, when hatched,
enter
the ground and remain there for 17 years feeding on the juices of roots.
They then
hatch as a light brown (pictured above) grub, without developed wings of
any kind.
They nest then without a cocoon, in their own skin. The skins (again, pictured
above)
then split open on the back, and can be found hanging on the sides of
trees.
S
(Photograph was made Saturday, the 31st of August,
2002)
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