This page includes cicadas, crickets, and grasshoppers.
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This cicada flew to my window screen. Those black bulges at the top are its eyes.
[The photograph was shot from the inside so the screen is between the camera and the cicada and creates a black-outlined grid across the image. The cicada is climbing up the screen and has clear wings which are twice its body length. Four of its brown legs are visible and extend beyond the sides of its body by a significant length. The underside of the body appears to be light purple and the back end decreases in width to a point. At the outer edges of the top of its head are the two black protrusions of its eyes.]

Cicada on a chain-link fence
[A close right-side view of the nearly upside-down cicada holding the metal with its six tan-colored legs. The wings are green at the edge attached to the body. The veins in the wing are rust-colored while the rest is clear. One bulging blueberry-like eye is visible at the front of its head. The body is visible through the clear wing.]

A cicada nymph (the stage before it becomes a flyer)
[The nymph is all brown and perched upward on a downward-hanging, long narrow leaf. This left-side view displays one large eye which reflects the light suggesting a liquidy glasses substance. It has a large claw at the end of its front leg.]

Coastal lyric cicada differs from other cicadas in that it has a black section between the head and the body.
[The cicada is on a white exterior wall. It has dark eyes, a black semicircular band between the head and body, and black and green sections on its head and body. The innermost edges of its wings are green. Its legs are mostly clear as they transition to light brown.]

The cicada had recently emerged from the nymph shell. There is a slit in the middle of the back of the shell through which the cicada emerged. It then unfolded its wings and body, and solidified all parts before moving on and leaving the shell.
[The cicada is on the left and a brownish glossy shell which looks like another creature is on the right. Both are stuck to the wall. The shell is just the body and feet.]

Cricket
[This creature has a similar body-type to a grasshopper, but has two long tails sticking out from its back end which resemble stingers on flying insects. This is a left side view of the cricket as it sits on a leaf. Its large back legs are two-toned in shades of brown.]

This grasshopper was attached to the outside of a second-floor window pane, so it was alive even though it looks a bit mummified. It may be a Carolina grasshopper.
[Right and underside view of a brown grasshopper with its head and antenna facing upward as it is stuck to the glass of the window. The bright sunlight washes out the color, but it appears there are stripes on the rear legs. The window glass is speckled with dirt, but most of the grasshopper is clearly visible.]

This may be a young short-winged grasshopper.
[Top-down view of a light brown grasshopper with nearly translucent legs perched on a dried brown leaf on the ground. The wings cover barely a quarter of the back part of its body.]

Looks to be a short-winged green grasshopper.
[This grasshopper has slightly longer antenna and its body and medium-length wings (slightly longer than the ones in the prior image) are light green. The back end of its body beyond the wings and its legs are a similar tan color of the prior grasshopper image. Both have sparkly brown eyes.]

Grasshopper
[Side view of a grasshopper with its head and antenna facing upward as it is perched on a leaf which is hanging at an angle. Its body is mostly green. Its legs have wide black stripes which run across the bent legs in several bands. The tips of its feet are also dark. The relatively short antenna are a light yellow.]

This may be a Mischievous Grasshopper.
[Top-down view of an all-brown grasshopper with its two front sets of legs wrapped around metal fence wires. The wings extend beyond the end of its legs and body.]

Eastern lubber grasshopper nymphs in the early stages
[Two photos spliced together. On the left are six nymphs with an orange stripe running down the middle of their backs crawling across a wide leaf. These are short creatures with antennas, but no wings yet. On the right is a palm leaf with so many nymphs on it, they appear to be stacked atop each other. The outer edges of the leaves are barely visible there are so many nymphs.]

Eastern lubber grasshopper nymphs
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a top-down view of a grasshopper nymph holding the edges of a verticle wooden board which is part of a fence. Nearly all parts of the grasshopper are a very dark brown. No wings are visible. The center spine portion of the body is a yellow-green as are the edges of the body sections both in the main body and the tail end. The photo on the right is an underside view of a grasshopper as it holds the stem of a plant with alternating leaves. The underside of the upper body seems to be a solid section similar to the underside of a turtle and is a maroon-brown color with two indented sections. This nymph seems to have longer antenna than the other one. ]

Another set of eastern lubber grasshopper nymphs
[Two photos spliced together. On the top image is the underside of a grasshopper nymph holding thick grass-like stems across the underside section that was visible in the prior photo. Mainly the underside of the back end of the body is visible in this image and each brown body section is rimmed with a thin orange-red section. Some parts of the undersides of the legs also have this lighter tint. The image on the bottom is a nymph standing on a very wide thick yellow-green leaf. The back legs are bent more than 90 degrees. The front section of the body gives the appearance of a layer of body armor. Seven segments are visible on the back part of the body. The front legs grab around the leaf edge to hold it. The antenna prominently project forward from the head of a length nearly half the size of the body.]

Two views of the same eastern lubber grasshopper molting from nymph to grasshopper
[Two photos spliced together. On the left photo the legs are to the right of the body. There are four legs which are dark brown and attached to the thin leaves of a plant. Colorful light brown and reddish-purple stripes around the body are visible as the body hangs downward from the dark legs. There is a set of visible light-colored legs near the head and antenna. On the right is the same grasshopper pulling its body from the dark remains but in this image the legs are on the left side of the body and one set of dark legs is obscurred by the leaves.]

Molting eastern lubber grasshopper remains
[The bent legs are attached to thin leaves and the body hangs downward. The short antenna appear to be attached to white

Adult eastern lubber grasshopper near the nymphs
[The grasshopper is much larger than the nymphs and holds the underside of a wide thick partially eaten leaf. All three left legs are visible as it hangs upside down. It is a brownish-orange color with lots of black speckles on its body, wings, and legs. Its antenna are part orange and part black. The hind legs have spike-like projections or maybe they are hairs. The wings are not quite as long as the body.]

Face of an eastern lubber grasshopper
[Straight on view of the head of a grasshopper as it sits in the folds of a yellow-green leaf stalk. The eyes are black and sit near the top of the head. The antenna protrude forward and upward from between the eyes. The sections of the head are vertical pieces from the top to about two-thirds down. Below that are horizontal sections which are probably the upper and lower portions of the jaw.]

Eastern lubbers have two sets of wings. On the left the front set is visible. On the right are the hind wings with red which are normally under the front set.
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a top down view of an adult grasshopper perched vertically on a yellow leaf. The wings are brown with black speckles and extend two-thirds the length of the body which has horizontal orange and black stripes. On the right the nymph has yellow and black horizontal stripes on its body. Its wings are approximately half the length of the body and are reddish-orange with black at the tips. These wings are not as wide as adult wings and thus more of the body is visible. This grasshopper nymph hangs on the underside of a yellow leaf.]

Eastern lubber grasshopper nymph making some output logs.
[Straight on view of a dark brown grasshopper nymph holding a vertical yellow stalk. Hanging from the tail end is string with two light brown sausage-shaped sections with a string section between them hanging vertically.]

Eastern lubber male grasshopper atop the female
[Side view of the grasshoppers with both facing right. The male is approximately two-thirds the size of the female. The back ends of both are approximately even and the head of the male only extends to the front end of the body of the female. She is a full head longer than him. They are on a black pole which lies flat on the ground. The grasshoppers are a colorful mix of brown and yellow and spots and stripes along their bodies and legs.]

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