#cicadidae

[jupiterswasphouse]

[VIDEO AND PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 27TH, 2025 | Video and Image IDs: A video and two photos of a beige/brown cicada fresh out of the ground, about to molt. In the video, it crawls across a human hand, trying to find a good spot, while in the photos it's perching momentarily on a wood post. /End IDs.]

Found this little guy, right on the verge of adulthood, on the ground, just getting ready to find a spot to molt! I had to get my dog away from it because the only reason I noticed it was because she was sniffing at it curiously! Spent the next 20 minutes trying to find a spot that it liked where I could watch it molt, until finally...

[VIDEO AND PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 27TH, 2025 | Video and Image IDs: A 15 minute long video and six photos of the cicada shown above, now on a white woven plastic tarp. Over the course of the video, the cicada molts, revealing a soft, grey, brown, and mint green exoskeleton as several angles are shown. The images show further progress, one just before the beginning of the video, the cicada partially through its molt; the next three right after the molting process, showing its wings at partial, but not full, extension; and the final two showing it much later in the night, still in the process of hardening, but much darker now than before as it reaches the end /End IDs.]

It molted! It decided it liked this tarp, and allowed me to watch the process unfold! It started molting maybe 5 - 10 minutes before I started filming and finished about 10 minutes after I stopped filming as well (I don't have a good setup for holding my phone in place so I was quite literally standing there for 15 minutes before I reluctantly tapped out), before proceeding to spend most of the rest of the night hardening up in that spot!

[lupineshieldmaiden]

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[mysillyium]

cicada moments

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day - Cicadapalooza!

So I went to see the Brood XIV cicada emergence on Cape Cod this week...:-D

(Linnaeus' Periodical Cicada - Magicicada septendecim)

[herpsandbirds]

Cicada (Tacua speciosa), family Cicadidae, found in SE Asia

photograph by EnnisFei (@ennisanna_fei)

[booleanbug]

dual emergence! woo!

[bowelfly]

i'm thinking about bugs

[humblegrub]

(funky town music plays)

[anime-insect-of-the-day]

Today’s anime insect of the day is: a cicada from The Apothecary Diaries

[inkshroom]

New year, new me ✨️

[snototter]

A dog-day cicada (Neotibicen canicularis) sits on a shelf fungus in Lake Meyer Park, Iowa, USA

by Larry Reis

[jupiterswasphouse]

[VIDEO AND PHOTOS TAKEN: APRIL 1ST, 2025 | Video and Image IDs: A video and four photos of a brown cicada nymph, covered in dirt, sluggishly moving around on a human hand, after having been accidentally dug up /End IDs.]

Accidentally pulled this muddy beast out of the ground too early while planting things! Don't worry, I put the cicada right back where it came from, very carefully.

[chuck-wills-widow]

Scissor Grinder (Neoticiben pruinosus) September, North Texas, USA

such a nostalgic little summer bug

[colorsoutofearth]

Australian green grocer cicada (Cyclochila australasiae) in yellow form

Photo by Chris Mattison

[herpsandbirds]

Giant Grassland Cicada aka Bush Cicada (Megatibicen dorsatus), family Cicadidae, TX, USA

photograph by Balaji Devarajan

[lazchance]

hello my dears... a long time ago an anon (hiiii!) said they liked cicadas and asked for cicada pics

back then i didnt have any impressive cicadas to show off but now ive two sets of observations im proud to show off... this black and scarlet cicada (Huechys sanguinea) came into my room and had trouble walking on the smooth bedroom floor. so vibrant. i love it

i released it after these shots were successfully taken

next i have this common cicada (Purana usnani) with its swamp green colouration and clear wings. although difficult to spot its widely known for the signature mating call that many people mistakenly attribute to crickets

i hope cicada anon will see this update because i felt i let them down with my original post... so im happy to present these two new sightings