A Brood X 17 year cicada molting on the side of a tree shortly after the nymph emerged from the ground completing a 17-year cycle in Illinois.

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Location: Dennison, Illinois
Photo credit: © Tony Campbell / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: 17, animal, bark, brood, bug, changing, cicada, emerging, forest, insect, magicicada, molt, molting, nature, nymph, outdoors, periodical, septendecim, shell, transform, transforming, tree, white, wild, wildlife, year