Sunday August 8, 2010
Wounded Cicada
Wounded Cicada

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.


Faith • 2010-08-09 09:06am

seems such a small amount of missing wing to cause such a disturbance in flight.
Ted Jerome • 2010-08-09 04:55pm

They are probably pretty finely-balanced with their "automatic" flight ability, so this amount of wing missing might make all the difference.
Jer • 2010-08-09 04:59pm

I'd phrase it a bit less delicately, "It's friggin' amazing that these things can fly at all!"