CRAPLOAD of Pictures

[americankitten]

I took a crap load of pictures so I'm going to put all of them under a cut.





This one was OMG weird. I didn't expect to see something like this. Thus the adventure! I almost didn't take this picture because I was all scared and girlly OMGBUGEWEWEW!!! But I dealt with it and took this picture! ^_^    It's just a shell.

               




 
But yeah I was taking photos this afternoon. I took like 71 photos but only edited 21 Because those were the best of the best. So the rest are on my deviantart. ^_^

I tried to make them as professional as possible. I hope it helps. =/

Comments

[ootwoods.livejournal.com]

I don't find them creepy looking, and I love taking photos of them if I can find them holding still. The nice thing is (like most of the larger insects) unless you are a tree, you have absolutely nothing to fear, as their entire life cycle (and food system) is built around trees.

There are "mass hatch" years, too, where a certain brood cycles (I think it's every seven?) and in some areas up here, they are so prevalent those years that people use snow shovels to clean up the carcasses.