bugkeeping:

I found another baby cicada 😭

Cicadas spend most of their life living underground as this little crawly thing, then, after up to 17 years depending on species, emerge and molt into winged cicadas to look for mates. These are the things going “zee, ZHEE” in trees in the summer, the ones that leave those empty shells lying around attached to things. You rarely see the larva still in its shell, they come out of the ground only to molt and do so as soon as they find a good spot to cling.