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Black & Gold Cicada (Huechys fusca), family Cicadidae, Thailand

photographs by Jeremiah Winden

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guy i met hiking in Chiang Mai

Cryptotympana mandarina

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cicada moments

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A hatching black cicada (Cicadatra atra) in Europe

by Steve Axford

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the acorn liqueur connoisseurs

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[VIDEO AND PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 27TH, 2025 | Video and Image IDs: A video and two photos of a beige/brown cicada fresh out of the ground, about to molt. In the video, it crawls across a human hand, trying to find a good spot, while in the photos it's perching momentarily on a wood post. /End IDs.]

Found this little guy, right on the verge of adulthood, on the ground, just getting ready to find a spot to molt! I had to get my dog away from it because the only reason I noticed it was because she was sniffing at it curiously! Spent the next 20 minutes trying to find a spot that it liked where I could watch it molt, until finally...

[VIDEO AND PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 27TH, 2025 | Video and Image IDs: A 15 minute long video and six photos of the cicada shown above, now on a white woven plastic tarp. Over the course of the video, the cicada molts, revealing a soft, grey, brown, and mint green exoskeleton as several angles are shown. The images show further progress, one just before the beginning of the video, the cicada partially through its molt; the next three right after the molting process, showing its wings at partial, but not full, extension; and the final two showing it much later in the night, still in the process of hardening, but much darker now than before as it reaches the end /End IDs.]

It molted! It decided it liked this tarp, and allowed me to watch the process unfold! It started molting maybe 5 - 10 minutes before I started filming and finished about 10 minutes after I stopped filming as well (I don't have a good setup for holding my phone in place so I was quite literally standing there for 15 minutes before I reluctantly tapped out), before proceeding to spend most of the rest of the night hardening up in that spot!