Cicada

Well captured.

thanks. I was always fascinated by bugs - the bigger, uglier, weirder sort.

Wow - what a great pic! (with a zoom lens??)

Thanks Sheila. Yes, Canon SureShot with Zoom (there were 5 throw-aways)

Looks really good for having spent the last 17 years underground! I love cicadas, too.

LOL, me too. I grew up with them & summer wouldn't be the same without them.

As small children we always imagined a busy sawyer was in the trees... busily zzzzzing away. Since my name was Sawyer, we called them Sawyer's Bugs!

That's exactly what they are doing right now,lol. As kids my brother and I would go outside with a flashlight and watch them come out of their shell.

Never had that chance but between the cicadas and whipoorwills we had very interesting and different evening entertainment!

Whipoorwills? - I'll have to google that one.

its a bird of the evening... whose call is very distinctive. they are not handsome birds ...some say ugly. but their call is the most wonderful thing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sukE9pGayRc

interesting. thank you