Singing Insects

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This little fella is not yet out of his shell. I spotted him crawling around.
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I was a few minutes too late with mine, just an empty shell:

 

[Mary Terry]

It is a cicada nymph if anyone doesn't know that.

I find a lot of skins stuck in the bark of oak trees. I think they come out of the ground and climb up the trees to eat and molt. Then lay eggs in the ground and die.

 

[tamalito]

I am terrified of most insects but do enjoy their songs, never heard a Katidys before because they're not common here

 

[Judge]

Growing up in VA I think I mostly remember Japanese beetles and Fireflies with a certain amount of wonder. Though my Dad who liked to grow things had no appreciation of those beetles!

Giant hornets and wasps were plentiful where I lived...and were definitely feared and avoided though.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I was a few minutes too late with mine, just an empty shell:


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Yeah. We have those all over the yard right now.

 

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I think they come out of the ground and climb up the trees to eat and molt. Then lay eggs in the ground and die.

That's pretty much it.

One of the funniest things I've ever seen, my brother tried a cheat's trick with a whipper snipper, using a length of 20 amp fuse wire instead of the proper nylon cord. It made a strange whirring sound when he used it and it attracted cicadas. We all thought it was funny at first, watching hundreds of cicadas flying to their death, then they started landing on him. Within a few minutes he looked like one of those pictures you occasionally see with people wearing a swarm of bees. Sadly this was before the days of mobile phones and digital cameras.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I spotted this one in the act of emerging from it's shell a few days ago.

 

[Rodafina]

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I spotted this one in the act of emerging from it's shell a few days ago.

WOW.

 

[Rodafina]

I’ve been watching the katydids “grow up” in the meadow behind my house.

A month ago they looked like this:

Now, they look like this:

I’m pretty sure it’s a common meadow katydid.

 

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You're getting bloody good with that camera.

 

[Rodafina]

You're getting bloody good with that camera.

Thank you. I appreciate the encouragement.