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Mississippi Cicadetta calliope - Cicadetta calliope - male

Mississippi Cicadetta calliope - Cicadetta calliope - Male
Madison County, Mississippi, USA
May 20, 2007
Size: 20 mm., head to wingtips
Found in grassy, weedy area that gets cut every year or two along the Natchez Trace by the Ross Barnett reservoir. This place was also Chigger Central, and I got hundreds of chigger bites to get this picture. If you have never had over a hundred chigger bites you can't appreciate what I went through. Variations in eye color and body pattern were seen.