I found this guy (dying) when he crash-landed on the patio last Saturday night. I knew it was a cicada, of course, and I’m actually not sure what prompted me to walk over and look at “yet another dog-day cicada”, but I’m glad I did because it wasn’t just another dog-day cicada. It was a cicada that I’ve never seen before in my life, and indeed, it took me some time to identify it as Neotibicen pronotalis, Walker’s Cicada. Among the largest, and the loudest cicada in North America…I wonder if these are responsible for the insect noises almost (almost!) loud enough to drown out stupid Balloon Fest? Anyway, it’s not a great picture because it was dark, and although I brought him inside so I could take a photo in daylight, by the next morning, he had died, and I don’t like pictures of dead insects. Not even loud, clumsy-flying, annoying as hell insects like cicadas.