Yes! I want in in 3D!

April 08, 2008

That's easy, booge. Just find yourself a cicada larvae that's about to molt. 3D and live.

April 08, 2008

The wings are a lovely green. It looks so weird as it bursts out of it's old skin... time lapse photography is neat!

April 08, 2008

Oh, Lordy Loo NO. I lived in DC/Maryland last year (West Coaster by birth) and these things are disgusting. Loud, stupid, messy, bumbling, clingy, shitting. They fly and land like they're drunk. No, I prefer the sanitized version, thanks.

April 08, 2008

I fully expect someone to turn this into a moving Gravatar any minute now...

This brings back memories of a massive emergence that happened in St. Louis, right as I was on a two-week visit to my Grandma's. We went to visit friends of my Dad's, and the trees in Festus were layered three-deep in molting cicadas and shed skins. And good grief, the NOISE!

--TwoDragons

April 08, 2008

I agree, kyrraven -- the green wings are beautiful. It seems that that's the green you only see for a day when the mesquite trees here in southern AZ finally "leaf out."

April 08, 2008

EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW! totally alien, bursting-out-of-chest nasty. okay, back, but whatever still unspeakably disgusting.

April 08, 2008

Wow that's just amazing! Thanks for sharing it!

April 09, 2008

This is so amazing!

April 14, 2008

It's so... so... cute! Just look at those big eyes!

May 10, 2008