2004 CICADA EMERGENCE
17 Year Cicada Emergence
Evening of May 16th, 2004
Cincinnati Ohio, USA
Anderson Township, Hamilton County

All images taken with Canon 10D DSLR using 50mm
f/2.8 macro lens and builtin flash on camera

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As they marched up our tree
on they way to the final molt
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My "model" cicada marches
up our bird house pole. He/She
was still around at 9AM the
next morning
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Got those wings all nicely
expanded and now needs to
dry out. This was shot around
2AM in the morning.
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Around 9AM, all dried out and
ready to go looking for love
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Another cicada I found with
wings unexpanded
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These are ALL females just
waiting for "love". They do
not sing but wait...
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A closeup of the mass of
cicada females