I rescued a cicada.

[bugmankeith]

For you all you cicada lovers, a cicada somehow got trapped under my garage shingles, and was constantly buzzing and flapping for many hours until I noticed it. So I got a rake to move the shingle, and a net, and managed to dislodge the cicada, all the while the loud buzzing was killing my eardrum. I let him go, so now he can live to sing another day.

 

[Nick12007]

Aw, I rescued a cicada on my way to class last week. It was on the ground after a night's storm and i picked it up, walked it to where I was going, warmed it up with my breath, and off it flew!

Plus, one night I happened to come across a few trees full of cicadas in the act of pupating, that was one of the most beautiful pupating insects I've seen.

 

[lucanidae]

Plus, one night I happened to come across a few trees full of cicadas in the act of pupating, that was one of the most beautiful pupating insects I've seen.

ummm, they pupate underground...

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They don't pupate at all! Only the Holometabolous insects pupate, and Cicadidae aren't a part of that group, they are Homopoterans, which are Hemimetabolous.

You would see them molting to maturity above ground, which I admit is really awesome looking.