Brief Adult Lives
In mid May large numbers of cicadas were all around our town. In certain neighborhoods their singing created loud inescapable background noise. At one wooded location, away from roads and traffic, I recorded a steady sound level of 69-70 decibels!
Nymphs emerged from the ground leaving these exit holes behind in my daughter's front yard.
The nymphs climbed up trees or other nearby structures.
Soon adults were everywhere, crawling on the ground, landing on streets and sidewalks, fluttering lazily past in the air, and even landing on my leg while I was out biking. This specimen posed nicely for a portrait just above my knee.
The goal of adults is to mate and reproduce. This couple was busy doing the job.
Adult cicadas die after mating. Roads and walkways were littered with their corpses. It was hard to avoid running over dead cicadas during my bike rides.
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