Julie Waggoner of West Whately said she was going out to hang laundry on her clothesline when she noticed something hanging from the line. As she got closer, she realized it was a just-hatched cicada, still clinging to its larval shell. “The cicada was hanging in the sunshine, drying its newly unfurled bright green wings,” she wrote in an email to the Gazette. After about 10 minutes it flew away, she says, leaving the shell behind. “Apparently the whole process of hatching and drying of wings usually only takes 30 to 60 minutes,” she says, “so I was pretty lucky to come outside and notice the insect when I did.”
Photo by JULIE WAGGONER
of West Whately
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