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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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