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Monday Morning Mystery 082018
Photographed this in my backyard next to the Celery Farm earlier this month.
What is it?
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Thank You Ginny, I believe you. I remember seeing these in Mechanicsburg, P.A. in my early boyhood where I lived from 1955-59. Then moved to Northern California in 1959 and never saw these again. Same thing with Lightning Bug/Fireflies. They don,t exist out here. Miss them both.
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Me on a Monday morning only I don’t become the butterfly.
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What Ginny said ew
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That would be the Cicades leave their exoskeleton on trees when they “molt” and become adults. Much like a catepillar becomming a butterfly.
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Glenn Zoslaw
Thank You Ginny, I believe you. I remember seeing these in Mechanicsburg, P.A. in my early boyhood where I lived from 1955-59. Then moved to Northern California in 1959 and never saw these again. Same thing with Lightning Bug/Fireflies. They don,t exist out here. Miss them both.
Marianne Herrmann
Me on a Monday morning only I don’t become the butterfly.
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What Ginny said ew
Ginny
That would be the Cicades leave their exoskeleton on trees when they “molt” and become adults. Much like a catepillar becomming a butterfly.