Found in the parking lot when we left work the other day. Raz was sniffing at it and the Cicada would try to fly away but only manage a short, circular flight to where it had started owing to one wing being damaged. I coerced it onto a piece of cloth and relocated it to the nearby woods. If I had my dad hat on I would have brought it home for Zane to see and let it go there, maybe after taking a few macro shots.
seems such a small amount of missing wing to cause such a disturbance in flight.
They are probably pretty finely-balanced with their "automatic" flight ability, so this amount of wing missing might make all the difference.
I'd phrase it a bit less delicately, "It's friggin' amazing that these things can fly at all!"