Summer Creature - aka Cicada

[DigitalScape]

Cicadas are a common sight (and even more, a common sound of summer).   
   

   

   

   

   
The story behind the images:
   
I found this critter in the pool skimmer basket. It looked like it recently had expired, but had not been damaged by the other objects in the skimmer.  So I thought it would be a good photo subject (a view or conclusion I am sure that my wife would not / does not support).  So got the camera set up with the lighting and took a few images.
   
After I was done, I wondered what to do with the subject.  So I decided that I would place it in one of the flower pots and allow it to “fertilize” the plants.  Later in the day, I went to water the various potted plants.  When I put the hose to the pot I had left the cicada in, the cicada moved!!  Not too sure that it was moving because of the water hitting it, I looked closer and the legs were moving – the critter was still alive.  It was completely dormant and unresponsive when I was photographing it (it even got dropped a couple of times).  I guess that it was dormant because of its extended swimming lesson and came to after warming up in the flower pot.
   
So just in case you have not looked closely (real close) at a cicada, this is your chance.

[motleypixel]

LOL, you're just lucky you didn't leave it sitting on the kitchen counter and have it crawl away and the wife find it later.   Good close details on these John.

[DigitalScape]

Roy, a mistake like that will cost me dearly - no question.  Although some of my bug macro images somehow end up in her screen-saver image folder - don't know how that happens.