Tuesday, July 8, 2008

The cicadas are out!

Last night I found this funny creature on Liam's sandbox. You can see it's molted exoskeleton in the background.

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The colors were so bright that I did not recognize it at all and apparantly they only look like this a short while after they emerge. Sure enough I found him again this morning (no picture though) and his body is completley brown and he has red spots near his eyes. I guess we just got lucky.

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4 comments:

Ava, Gabriella and Maya said...

Wow they are great shots..

Sarah Randall said...

thats wicked cool! you are lucky to have seen them!

Amy said...

Those things are just plain freaky!

missmaddie said...

you are such a scientist!