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fat body, wide "face," green and back "arched" markings, wings about twice as long as body. Top photo is the shell it crawled out of. Amazing.
in this case... the urban forest of Chicagoland...
I know it's an annual cicada, in the order of homoptera, but what species? Check out the youtube timelapse video of a cicada emerging from its shell (attached in the Project Noah form)
Spotted on Jul 29, 2011
Submitted on Jul 30, 2011
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Oh... the thumbnail with the arrow beneath the image box is the link to the video... check it out. it's really quite amazing.
hl'mmm not seeing the youtube link on this page... So...here's a video of an Australian cicada emerging:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-8deUTglpM Seriously wondrous...