Shell

You can see through its eye! The cicada shed this outer shell. See the split on top of the back? Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Look! There was a "shell" over its eyes. It sure left a lot of details behind. Look how fuzzy it was!

Cicada

This cicada was sitting on the chair on our porch. They can sit very quietly for a very long time. Holly Thompson mentions cicada in her HTJ interview posted on the 28th.

The Real Thing

This is one of the many kinds of dragonflies here. Click on the label below to see other pictures.

This is a cicada. It was sitting on a piece of plastic that I was drying on the balcony. I took many pictures of the cicada. I moved the plastic around to different angles. The cicada never moved. I was carrying it into the house to take more pictures of it under better light and all of sudden it spun around and flew away. I thought it was dead!

Old Summer Friends

It seemed the cicadas started up a little late this year. They climbed out from under the dirt and have "sung" nonstop ever since. We have a lot of these holes in our garden. We also have several of the brown shells they leave behind.




This was the first cicada I have seen this summer. He stayed on this wall for a long time.