Cicadas are my other favorite insect, and thanks to Ugly Overload, I found this wonderful video!
Enjoy the wonder. There is a fairly extensive amount of info on Michigan Cicadas at the U of M website, including life cycle info.
This looks like a dog-day cicada to me, but it’s hard to tell from the video. Anyone?
Edited to add: In my excitement over the movie, I forgot to mention this is very sped up–the actual process can take hours. Source of the video is Wikipedia.
April 8, 2008 at 3:32 pm
welp, you got another great post! I have seen lots of carcasses but never a live cicada (have I?)
this is kewl.
April 8, 2008 at 4:18 pm
now you know what comes out of those little brown shells
April 8, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Very cool – I’m partial to cicadas myself!
It might be a dog-day cicada. Kind of has a greenish cast, but I’m not an expert here
April 9, 2008 at 1:33 am
Great..now I am singing “Snappy Cicada Pizza!”
April 13, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Which reminds me, I discovered I’d left you off of my blogroll. Fixed now.
April 21, 2008 at 11:14 am
I THINK YOU LIKE BUGS A LOT.
May 8, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Hi there. I stumbled across your site while looking up information on the huge number of what appear to be Magicicadas in my front yard at the moment. Thanks for the U of M link. It was really helpful. You can see them here: http://greenthumbr.com/members/lance/journal/2008/5/8/cicadas
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