My pal "Double or Nothin'" recently sent me a great picture of a cicada just moments after molting.  It's really a close look of the first few seconds in the new life of this cicada.  Really neat, huh?  It's definitely not the kind of thing you see every day.  I think I have seen a live cicada in its original "skin" only twice in my lifetime.  By coincidence, I spotted a cicada-killer wasp in our front yard the other day, which is also a rare sight.  I am not sure if cicada-killers sting humans, but I sure don't want to find out for myself because they look pretty intimidating.

My friend was going to send this photo to the amateur brain-surgeons at WHIO-TV, but I begged for the opportunity to post it here instead.  She said that she thought I would appreciate it more than anyone else she knows.  Right on, right on.  Thanks, Griff!