Off-year Cicada

[Setec Astronomy]

Here's a fellow I spotted this morning:

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And the clothes he was wearing before I spotted him:

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I always get a few cicadas every year, they are green unlike the hordes that are black.

[worth1]

We've got them dead everywhere.
Did their thing and died.

[karstopography]

Green ones are all we get here. Dog-day cicadas are the green ones here. I always dig up several of the grubs working my beds in preparation to plant, evidently the grubs like the tree roots that tend to intrude into my raised beds. Or I’ll find them as they crawl from the ground up on the tomato supports and netting, leaving behind those light brown cast skins.

Cicadas are prime prey for Cicada Killer hornets, Mississippi Kites, Red Shouldered Hawks, and whatever else can get to them. The Male Cicadas sing all summer long here, making me feel at home. The females are silent. At some point as summer moves into fall, all the singing stops. I’m going to try and nail down the date. The Mississippi Kites all leave by September 1st. There won’t be a single one September 2nd. The cicadas will continue on for a while longer after that.

https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/dog-day-cicada/

[JRinPA]

They are getting loud around here too, just this past week, they started (their racket) in the evenings.

[Moth1992]

I love their silly faces.

[CrazyAboutOrchids]

We have the green ones and the only reason I know that is we also have Cicada Killer Wasps that seem to love our property. They tunnel in the soft base that is under our natural stone walkway. It's amazing to see them working, and even more amazing to see them return carrying a cicada which they will drag into their tunnel. We've had them 3 years now; they arrive in June. I refuse to treat them with anything because of our dogs and chickens, but we do 'address them' in a way to keep their population in check otherwise we wouldn't have a walkway! Better than our neighbors, oh my are they destructive and on their property, it's the lawn that gets destroyed.