Annual Cicada

Fantastic shot, Marni. Perfect capture, a delicate sculpture. Great DOF, too.

I like this photo, good comp, detail and DOF. :)

BRAVO! 7/7

Great Macro Merni, another BRAVO comes from the Turkish Jury...

Thank you Alexandra, Colin, Alec, Paula, Fernando, Jim and Kamil. I appreciate your comments and your expertise. Merni

That picture of the ciccada just above the exoskeleton is just amazing. I would see it in National Geographic. Love the documentary aspect of it, plus it's a flawless photo.

 

Goog work!

I appreciate you stopping by and your comment.

I'm glad to have witness this event. This year there were no Cicadas.

This must be a 7year locust... they stay undergroud for 7 years and then come out to breed. They dont come out every year, it all depends on when they bred and how long any particular species decides to emerge... there are several species all emerging in different time spans. The REALLY nasty looking ones are the 13 or 17 year locusts... these species are really amazing because they stay underground for 13 or 17 years and then emerge in synch. Youll definitly know when these things come out.. they will be EVERYWHERE in mass numbers and be much larger than the annual ones... Ive saw casings as large as 4 inches long the last time they came out. The insects themselves look basically the same except the eyes are blood red and the bodies are much darker... anyway, great photograph of an amazing insect!

Great capture. I was wondering where this was taken, as I remember seeing the skeletons slinging quite tightly to the bark of pine trees when I was growing up in Georgia, and sure enough! I've seen the skeletons, but never the bug. Wild "mask" on his face. Did you get any shots of him crawling out of his skin? I'm sure that was a sight as well.

Patrick these were everywhere but not mass numbers.

Though to hear them at night it got pretty loud.Thank You for your detailed discription.Also for your time.

 

Brian Hi again....I'll check my folders to see if I caught one emerging.

You can see a snap shot above through the comments. Which was taken after

it crawled out and also the exoskeleton. Thank you Brian.

This is a very beatiful shot of a very beatiful creature. Perhaps a different veiw of a cicada will change some minds.

Thank You Daniel for your photo! Brian Y. (See above comment}, may like this too.