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Submitted by: Moni

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Great job identifying this everyone! Great photo of the last nymphal stage of the cicada. The adult does emerge from this skin by a slit in the back. Cicadas can be a pest in a nursery situation, because the adult lays eggs by slitting a hole in the branch of small trees or limbs and inserting the egg. They leave a long line of slits in a row which damage the limb and can deform nursery trees. In our regular vegetable gardens they are not a pest.

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Submitted by: Anonymous

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If you find brown empty husks that look like that bug, then I'd say its most likely a cicada. They hatch out of the ground and then crawl up the nearest plant, bush or tree. Once they "molt" they can fly and look like a huge fly [sort of]. They make that high pitched whine you hear this time of summer.

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Submitted by: Anonymous

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I'm no expert, but it looks like a cicada getting ready to molt. I don't know what they eat, but they aren't normally considered pests...

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