|Swamp Cicada from Baltimore County. Photo by Jim Brighton http://picasaweb.google.com/109627728893182537813|
|The crunchy brown shell that remains on a tree trunk after a cicada has emerged.|
Cicadas, by the way, are NOT locusts. Locusts are grasshoppers, in the scientific order Orthoptera. Cicadas are more closely related to aphids and are in the order Homoptera. You may recall from high school biology the classification runs kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species so organisms in different orders are really really unrelated!
|Cicada from CRFRS grasslands.|