Thanks to Johnathan's keen powers of observation, our morning bike ride turned into a nature walk. He spotted a cicada just hatching (don't think "hatching" is the right word - emerging?) from its larva-stage shell, or something like that. Hmm... I think we need to pull our Johnathan's copy of Ranger Rick and brush up on our cicada life-cycle terminology!
We watched for a while to see if it fly away, but we gave up as the temperature crept higher. Since it was gone later, we assumed it made it safely to its new home in the tree.
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