The Next Day

It's morning, so Ethan and Aaron check their
jars. They find shed skins and dark-colored
adult cicadas.

The boys wait until the cicadas' new wings
are dry and stiff, and their new bodies are
well rested.

Then they throw the cicadas into the air and
watch them fly away!

The males join the buzzing chorus in our trees,
and the females look for males to mate with
and then for places to lay their eggs. If they
are successful, we'll find cicadas in our
neighborhood for years to come.

It's a beautiful morning. Ethan and Aaron
spend the rest of the day looking for more
bugs!

Learn more about how we hunt for cicadas

Learn more about how we keep live cicadas

The following pages include more text and more
challenging ideas than the Cicada Hunt! story pages.
They also include photos of mating cicadas, and of
injured and dead cicadas.

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This page was created on August 26, 2000, and it was last updated on July 27, 2002.