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Cicadas are fascinating insects known for their distinct buzzing and clicking sounds, which fill the air during the warmer months in many parts of the world. Belonging to the order Hemiptera, cicadas are part of the superfamily Cicadoidea.
The Cicada photo above was taken by me at West Point Lake, Lagrange, Georgia 05/02/2024 -The nearly dead bodies were raining down on the cabin deck where we were staying. The Cicada buzzing was the loudest we’d ever heard. West Point Lake, which is located in Troup and Harris counties, is a man-made reservoir located mostly in west-central Georgia on the Chattahoochee River and maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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