All those yellow things you see sticking to the trunk of this tree are cicada skins. They crawl out of the dirt around the tree, crawl up the tree, attach themselves, molt, shed their old skin, revealing their adult body and fly away.
It's been cloudy this week.
These clouds looked like they were boiling they were moving and changing shapes so fast.
Friday morning sunrise.
Looking in a different direction on Saturday morning during sunrise.
I found this little beetle in my apartment Saturday, I picked him up, got a picture and took him outside.
How was your week?
We don't have cicadas here but we came across them in Majorca last year. There was such a funny buzzing noise in the trees and it turned out it was cicadas making it.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of the Tom Waits’ song Army Ants
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos, Mary. I know cicadas well, we have them here in Montreal. There was one on my balcony window I took a picture of and will be sharing on an upcoming blog post.
ReplyDeleteOur pine trees will look the same way this month as that is when our cicadas shed their shells.
ReplyDeleteMary, I love how you notice the little things -- from cicada shells to sunrise skies to a tiny beetle visitor. Nature really does put on a show when we slow down to look.
ReplyDeletewe hear the cicadas all the time but I have never seen so many skins on a tree before, that is really cool!
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