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| Annual cicada, Tibicen sp. |
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| 3 ocelli |
I've always loved those little sparkly red-jelly eye-spots. When I was little I thought they looked like lights. I still think they look like lights.
What I was really after was a good shot of the beautiful pattern on its back. It's a very elegant color combination, in a lovely and mysterious pattern.
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| Full frontal cicada.
I had a species name plonked on this one, after looking up "cicada" and then "annual cicada" and then "Missouri annual cicada," until I looked a little further into it, and saw that there's a whole bunch of similar ones, and then I lost interest.
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> I had a species name plonked on this one ...
ReplyDeleteKinda like mushrooms! :)
-- Feral boy
Nice camo! That is one interesting bug. I wonder what environmental reason gave it those colors.
ReplyDeleteThat's what they always look like, unless they've just emerged (brighter). At least, that's what THIS species always looks like. When I found out there's about 6 kinds in Missouri, it suddenly seemed too hard to figure it out, so I stopped at "Tibicen".
ReplyDeleteOr do you mean in its whole evolutionary life?
It's a Tibicen lyricen.
ReplyDeleteCheers
Well, thanks! Where did you come from, and where were you when I needed you???
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