Emergence

So. Many. Cicadas.

I have found cicada shells before, and seen adult cicadas, both living and dead, but haven’t witnessed a cicada emerging from their final molt. I have now, in spades. Every evening when I go to close the people doors on the coop, there is at least one cicada crawling out of its nymph form. I have to be careful not to crunch one in the door, and have had to relocate a couple so I could safely batten the hatches. Here are some of the pictures (not of the same individual).

The back of the cicada nymph has cracked and the adult is starting to emerge
Adult almost free of the shell
Newly emerged adult out of the shell (I had to move this one because it started the process in a door frame)
Living adult cicada on the brick of the house
Deceased cicada in the leaf litter
Empty cicada nymph shell