Annual Cicada

I noticed a cicada in the front-yard blue spruce not long after its final molt September 8.

(iPhone 7)

(iPhone 7)

(Nikon with 55-300mm zoom lens)

(Nikon with 100mm macro lens)

Gary Shandling

 For some reason, my first thought was Gary Shandling.

Who's in there?

A couple of flyers

This 17-year cicada was on the wall of a ticket building at the Columbus Zoo, and a damselfly was in my back yard on a forsythia bush. There were no cicadas at my house. Which is fine.

I wonder if this member of cicada Brood X spent some time in a spiderweb. Notice the light-colored diagonal line about as far behind the eyes as where the wings are attached.

There's schmutz on the outstretched wingtip.

 

There's what might be a web strand attached to the tip of the wing.

I shot the cicada with my macro lens and was maybe six inches from the bug. The lens is my hammer, and I am looking for nails. One nail is a certain gecko which is at the center of a project that so far is not going well.

But who needs a macro lens when there's a zoom lens extended to 300mm and a photographer standing three feet away from the subject?

ebony jewelwing, male

Look at this picture and the next one on a big screen or zoom in to see what look like long hairs on the legs.