That's not the 17 year, that's the annual one, comes out every summer. The 17 year cicada has beady little red eyes (& they're not green, they're more brown), and there's a WHOLE LOT MORE of them, & around here they come out in springtime.
Originally Posted By: TX_1821
Nice pics OP, especially 2nd one.
Is that a Macro lens?
It's from my Motorola Droid Maxx cell phone. i was sitting on my John Deere with it running and the blades a spinning when I took them too. They didn't flinch a bit.
Here's my Cicada killer, the Tommy gun. I learned to hate Cicadas since I moved back to Arizona. As a kid growing up in Phoenix they weren't that bad, noisy but tolerable, but the ones up here are twice the size and the noise will make your ears ring. I make it my summer's work to rid them from the trees near my house.