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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

A Molting Cicada

I have spent the last few nights prodding and cajoling cicadas to molt in the controlled conditions of my garage. Using the time-lapse feature on my camera I made a few videos of this fascinating process. Here is the best one.



To see this process in a more natural environment, go checkout David Schuttler’s video.

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3 comments:

meeciteewurkor said...

Wow! Now THAT is very cool.

Sometimes I wish I could come out of my skin like that..
:)
That's a neato camera you've got there, Steven.

D.Schuttler said...

Now thats cool , with it in color and also the shadow tops it off...

Great job

Steven H. Roemerman said...

Thank you.