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This is a cicada shell. Growing up, I was taught to call these locust shells as well. It turns out that "locust" is not an interchangeable term for "cicada", as locusts are actually short-horned grasshoppers. Just learned this myself!
Spotted on Aug 27, 2012 Submitted on Aug 27, 2012
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This is a cicada shell. Growing up, I was taught to call these locust shells as well. It turns out that "locust" is not an interchangeable term for "cicada", as locusts are actually short-horned grasshoppers. Just learned this myself!