Found this husk on the shed today. Strange, wasn't there 2 days ago. It's large! About 2". Do bugs like this shed?

cicada

the more common ones I see here are almost as big as my thumb sometimes.

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That's the shell of a cicada nymph. The adults shed that form and go off to mate.

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OMG Alien Bug coming to eat your Brains!!!!


Nah. Cicada. Soon to keep you awake for several weeks.

Got 'em all over the place. When we were kids we would hook them on our shirts to scare the girls. Here's a shot I posted a year ago of a cicada emerging from the shell:

Gahhh... my first close encounter with one of those was down here last year, and they are EVIL alien creatures, huge things, really nasty and make extremely annoying in-and-out buzzing noise. Straight out of a sci-fi flick!

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Gahhh... my first close encounter with one of those was down here last year, and they are EVIL alien creatures, huge things, really nasty and make extremely annoying in-and-out buzzing noise. Straight out of a sci-fi flick!

They're harmless and fascinating.
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I've got a cicada shot, too.





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Gahhh... my first close encounter with one of those was down here last year, and they are EVIL alien creatures, huge things, really nasty and make extremely annoying in-and-out buzzing noise. Straight out of a sci-fi flick!

It's a summer noise. Soothing.

They have no mouth & don't eat. Therefore they don't bite. But they do look like something out of a George Pal movie.

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Gahhh... my first close encounter with one of those was down here last year, and they are EVIL alien creatures, huge things, really nasty and make extremely annoying in-and-out buzzing noise. Straight out of a sci-fi flick!

It's a summer noise. Soothing.

Uhhh, you're joking, right? It sounds like a power line or box that is loudly failing. At least, that's what I thought it was, when I first heard it-- loud screeching that wails in and out, like an air raid siren.

And yes, they look like some sort of giant mutant housefly... the first time I saw one up close, I was shocked how big the thing was... approximately 1.5 x 2.5 inch.

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Good golly. I halfway thought it was a Cicada but didn't have a chance to look it up yet.

I remember those being all over Western Pa when I was a kid. We used play with their shells. Many GI Joe characters died in the vicious jaws of a cicada. Transformers did a bit better as I recall. The battles were epic though.

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I remember those being all over Western Pa when I was a kid. We used play with their shells. Many GI Joe characters died in the vicious jaws of a cicada. Transformers did a bit better as I recall. The battles were epic though.

Oh man. I am up late looking through GI Joe and TF auctions as I read this. Odd.

I've been lucky - twice in the last two days I've seen a cicada killer wasp snaring its prey. The wasp will sting the cicada to numb it, then it will lay its eggs in the cicada's body and if able to fly the somewhat larger insect back to its nest to gestate.



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I've been lucky - twice in the last two days I've seen a cicada killer wasp snaring its prey. The wasp will sting the cicada to numb it, then it will lay its eggs in the cicada's body and if able to fly the somewhat larger insect back to its nest to gestate.



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Dude!

I took a video of one of those digging a hole in Granny Z's yard last week and couldn't find WTH kind of wasp it was on the useless Internetz. And here you post a pic of the very bug which I'd never seen before. The damn thing's huge! I didn't see it annoying any cicadas, though.

Thanks for the post!