Having spent its entire life underground, this Cicada nymph made its way to my home and attached itself to the brick wall just outside the door. When I came upon it last Saturday morning, the moulting process was far along, and the struggles to be free of its old skin were sufficiently intermittent and weak to permit a stack of some 20 images.
A few minutes later, finished with this process and ready to proceed with adulthood, it moved to the wall, and only a bit more that two hours after the first image, its wings and body had already changed dramatically. The newly minted adult was gone by the end of the day, only the moulted exoskeleton remaining to be washed away by the next rain.
To me, quite an amazing process.
Leonard
