My wife noticed a cicada emerging from its shell tonight just before 10pm. Here are some pictures I took over about 1/2 an hour! So cool! (Note this cicada is unrelated to the 17-year brood currently active in the Northeast)

by row:

  • 9:50pm 
  • 10:00pm
  • 10:10pm
  • 10:20pm
  • 10:30pm
  • 12:00am

Click to enlarge and browse!

[Edited to add: I took one more photo at midnight, and by 1:00am it was gone, presumably climbed or flew to a safer location]

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