My daughter found this cicada (as a nymph) lying in a gutter after a heavy rain. (I thought it was dead.) She insisted we put it in a jar of water, and I was shocked to see it swim for its life. We put it on a nice, dry, piece of bark and it emerged the next morning during breakfast. Unfortunately, I did not get a photo of the nymph before emergence. I snapped this shot just after it fell out of the larval skin. The whole inflation of the wings took just a few minutes. (Emergence started at about 9:20 a.m. Wings were inflated completely by about 9:45 a.m. The photos here range from 9:27 to 10:30 a.m.) I did not get to see the wings harden and the critter fly off. Measured length of this individual with wings fully inflated was about 51 mm. Body length was about 40 mm.

Sequence of photos of this individual is shown in linked images, with shed skin at far right.