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    Senior Member Copy_Kot's Avatar
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    Emerging cicada

    I finally found an emerging cicada today. The light was very bright so I tried to block some of it with an umbrella.
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    Re: Emerging cicada

    Neat series! Congrats on reaching your goal ofcatching one emerging, are their wings really that green?

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    Re: Emerging cicada

    i really l ike that last one. you should see when the 17 year cicadas hit, these guys are every where, including at the base of trees in stinking dead masses.
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    Re: Emerging cicada

    Great to here you got your emerging Cicada and you did a fine job of capturing it too!
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    Re: Emerging cicada

    I agree - great series, Copy! I've never caught one "in the act". Great perserverence :thumbsup:

    Oh, I love that second one.
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    Re: Emerging cicada

    Thanks guys... and yes, the wings are really that green

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