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Empty Shell

An empty cicada nymph shell.

 

"Cicada nymphs emerge after a 17-year childhood underground. Over the course of just a few weeks, they molt, mate, and die. Their babies will hatch in trees and find their way back to the dirt to continue the strange cycle.

They spend most of their lives underground as larvae, followed by a short adulthood — from two to six weeks — above ground."

 

Read more at:

www.livescience.com/57814-cicada-facts.html

 

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Uploaded on December 1, 2019
Taken on November 28, 2019