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A dirty little bug
While working in my garden Sunday, June 23, I found this cicada nymph coming out of a hole in the ground.
The cicada was climbing very slowly out of the hole it had created. This cicada nymph will take several hours to as long as possibly three days to climb a tree and shed its exoskeleton.
There has been lots of media hype about a large cicada outbreak in North America this year and that has happened in some places. But where I live in Southeast Missouri, it has been a normal year for cicadas so far.
Cicadas appear from June through August. There are at least 17 species of cicadas in North America.
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