Name: Dog Day Cicada
Location found: In our backyard
Interesting facts: Cicadas sing by flexing membranes called tymbals, located on its underside. Cicada nymphs live underground and eat the sap of trees, then emerge and shed their skin, called an exoskeleton.
Notes: This picture shows the cicada's exoskeleton on the left, and the adult insect on the right. My brother found this nymph, and we got to take it inside and watch it molt and emerge as an adult. Then we let him go on our big maple tree.
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