Cicadas!

by Jon Scaccia August 7, 2024

Where I live wasn’t part of the Brood X shenanigans earlier this year. Instead, we generally get cicadas yearly toward the back end of the summer. That’s one thing I love, by the way–the way the lightning bugs signal the beginning of summer and the cicadas signal the end.

Walking around with my kids last evening collecting cicada shells off the trees, we found three that were still in the process of molting. Alas, I couldn’t timelapse them (it would have been weird to hold still for that long), but we did get to watch an AMAZING process.

If you want to watch someone else’s timelapse, I found this great youtube video that only has 33K views for some unfathomable reason. Probably needs more Minecraft.

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