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Cicada Sighting - Swansea, MA

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Cicada Sighting - Swansea, MA

Hello and thank you so much responding. These are the pics I took and I am also really, really curious as well and I hope it is too...lol. As I know nothing about this subject whatsoever but am very nosy about nature.

Thx, Linda

T. lyricen dorsal view
T. lyricen female en-face view

Date Posted: 2007-07-23 Comments: (1) Show Comments Hide Comments

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Posted By: Massachusetts Cicadas | On: 2010-11-28 | Website:

Hi Linda

Thank you for the photos. Yes, that is a cicada. It is a Tibicen lyricen cicada. It is rare to find them down low like that. Maybe he just molted into the adult form and was just kind of hanging around.

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