cicadas!

Everywhere.

I took all these pictures just walking through half the garden- a small fraction of my yard. Here's one on a decking post:

On an onion stem

On turnip leaves

In the rue

On a curlicue of my new trellis

closeup:

These two I found just recently emerged from their larval skins, so the bodies still fat, the wings small and crumpled

The birds and lizards are feasting. I keep startling sparrows and robins out of the garden. I watched a large skink tackle one this morning. And I find their body parts- especially discarded wings- lying about.