Other people might get their ducks in a row, but they're just amateurs.
Look at that rogue cicada shell. Get back in line!
And oh my gosh, don't click on this picture of these naughty cicada shells unless you are 18 or older. Do you think the adult cicadas fell in love?
Seriously, don't you think a more stable place to molt might be the preferred choice? Then again, the little hooks on those cicada shells can really hang on for a longggg time. Oh well, to each their own!
EDIT: I'm adding a picture of an adult cicada to show how it looks out of the shell. This one looks quite gray, but I usually see ones that are light green in color in Texas. Other species have yet other colors, as well.
This is the ignorance of the north talking, but I had no idea what cicadas looked like. None. That is too cool.
Those cicada shells are the final molt stage of the nymph -- the flying, big-eyed adults look like bizarre aliens to me! I'll be sure to get a picture of one sometime.
So much sex in the garden. Last night on mountain mint and milkweed a dozen different insect species were XXX-ing it. And then there are the flowers themselves....
Life must go on!
We don't have cicadas on the west coast but they look a lot like June Bugs.
Just the nymphs and shells look like June bugs -- the adult cicada looks a lot different. I'm add a picture to the post of the adult stage.