Photo Gallery: Cicadas 2004

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On the big beech trees alongside McCarter Theater, Princeton University, Princeton NJ., Memorial Day 2004 All photos taken by Yuki Yamada

		There was a carpet of cicadas: adults, nymphs, and those in between. Some had come out slightly deformed, or had fallen and couldn't get up.
Empty nymph shells overhead. For a couple weeks this was a common sight across a huge swath of the country.
		Notice the contrast: the cicada on the left has 'hatched' from its skin quite recently, and has not yet fully transformed into the ready-for-flight-and-mating individual on the right. Of course it never had a chance to do this, because I ate it. And it was delicious!

A fully mature specimen on one of those beech trees.

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