A cicada freshly emerged from its exoskeleton in lowland rainforest near Chilamate
A cicada freshly emerged from its exoskeleton in lowland rainforest near Chilamate Costa Rica The cicada is exhibiting incomplete metamorphosis whereby an insect sheds its exoskeleton to become bigger
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Photo credit: © Martin Shields / Alamy / Afripics
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