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[Dutchling]

Top view, next to a quarter for size.
Bottom view.
Sorry about the low picture quality and lighting.

You either have very large coins, or that bug isn't large at all.

[Mageziya]

Spoiler: Link to baby cicada. (click to show/hide)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1166/1020341275_bad49a40e8.jpg

Cicadas are completely harmless; hell, ANTS are MORE DANGEROUS than cicadas!

Harmlessness doesn't matter.  It flies, its big and looks scary.  That is enough for me.  I can imagine it flying into my face and getting bug-parasite germs all over my eyes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I have an overactive imagination when it comes to the filthiness of bugs and birds.

They are really loud fliers. Sometimes it startles me when a cicada (Rarely) is close by and tries to fly away.

Also, for you people with the phobias.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOlF_qDkehk

and for the majority of a cicada's life, it is this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQT4KPGPPZZQeV7nToGCLGwJLEBU2l8ojb-HYeCQmhZpoUwTOGo

Finally a documentary thing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLiWy2nT7U&feature=related

[RedKing]

To agree with everyone else, yup that's a cicada. You should be down here when there's a brood hatch and you get a couple million of them per square mile. For about a week. Then they all die and the ground is covered in crunchy, squishy dead bugs. At least until the local dogs and cats and birds (and sometimes people) devour them. In the meantime, you get a daily serenade that is rather unlike any other noise you will ever hear. Take your average summer cicada, and plug it into AC/DC's sound system, then crank the amp to 11. 

I have fond childhood memories of walking around in the twilight to 80-decibel drones.

I was rather disappointed that Brood XIX was kind of a bust around here. I want my kids to experience the kind of "HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THAT ALIEN NOISE" that I had. Hopefully next year will get a good hatch out of Brood II.

[SoHowAreYou]

Oh yes I remember when they last came out around my home, everybody dropped what they were doing and started talking about them at school.

[darkrider2]

Wow, scared of of a bug that is (I'm pretty sure) INCAPABLE of eating and with an IQ less than that of zero. The bug that leaves those creepy molts (

Spoiler: Link to 'Nightmares' (click to show/hide)

http://www.hiltonpond.org/images/CicadaMolt01.jpg

) around and makes the summer noise in the Americas we all know and love.

Looks like a potatoe bug... or something, that's the closest I remember to what we called them. I found the shells of a bunch of these things attached to our tree a year back. It was creepy, but that cacada, just, takes the cake, and probably could if it wanted.

EDIT: Damnit that's like the third time I've posted after forgetting there was more than one page already.

[i2amroy]

Cicadas might be a bit scary, but the worst thing is stepping on them. I was in the middle of a marching band night practice when unbeknownst to me there was an easily 6 inch long cicada lurking in the grass. Cue a horrible crunching noise and a massive amount of bug goo all over might shoes. *Shudder* Ugh.

[ggamer]

Yeah, cicadas are really dumb and slow. I think I karate kicked one out of the air one time.

However, they are reaaally freaky sometimes. You'll be walking around and someone points out that a cicada has attached to your back. Damn things'll stick too.

[JoshuaFH]

Yeah, cicadas are really dumb and slow. I think I karate kicked one out of the air one time.

However, they are reaaally freaky sometimes. You'll be walking around and someone points out that a cicada has attached to your back. Damn things'll stick too.

Of course they stick, they only get one chance to love every decade or so.

[Detonate]

To agree with everyone else, yup that's a cicada. You should be down here when there's a brood hatch and you get a couple million of them per square mile. For about a week. Then they all die and the ground is covered in crunchy, squishy dead bugs. At least until the local dogs and cats and birds (and sometimes people) devour them. In the meantime, you get a daily serenade that is rather unlike any other noise you will ever hear. Take your average summer cicada, and plug it into AC/DC's sound system, then crank the amp to 11. 

I have fond childhood memories of walking around in the twilight to 80-decibel drones.

I was rather disappointed that Brood XIX was kind of a bust around here. I want my kids to experience the kind of "HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THAT ALIEN NOISE" that I had. Hopefully next year will get a good hatch out of Brood II.

I remember when Brood X hit. My sandbox was full of cicada skins. It was terrible, I had no idea what they were and thought the skins were bugs waiting to jump on me and bite or something.

[AntiAntiMatter]

I had the ill fortune to be in the suburbs of Chicago when Brood XIII hit. The ground was carpeted in the things and you could barely hear yourself think. It was awful.

[darkrider2]

I had the ill fortune to be in the suburbs of Chicago when Brood XIII hit. The ground was carpeted in the things and you could barely hear yourself think. It was awful.

Get the lawn mower. Don't mulch, the attachment that makes it shoot out the side is mandatory.

[Ultimuh]

Lopoks cute, I'd catch it with a pokeball if I were you. 

[Jacob/Lee]

I don't recall any cicadas, actually. The area west of Saint Louis had an emergence last year, but I don't actually remember any here...


Anyway, spiders and such don't really bother me much. But, centipedes. Goddamn centipedes. I hate them with all my heart. Not the little ones you find in your basement, the other kinds.

[DeKaFu]

I've always thought cicadas were rather pretty insects. Something about the shape and the wings.

Then again, you rarely see them around here and I've never had to good fortune to encounter a mass emergance.  Maybe if I'd had more bad experiences with them I wouldn't like them so much.

Did you know there's no less than 5 Pokémon based on cicadas? Nincada is a cicada nymph, Ninjask is an adult cicada, Shedinja is the empty shed exoskeleton (haunted no less), and Paras and Parasect are cicada nymphs infected with Cordyceps fungus.

Japan has just the right amount of fascination with awesome bugs.

[Yoink]

I've seen plenty of cicadas here in Australia. I don't find them scary, but I still dislike them.
While I don't live in a rural area these days, a while ago I was doing volunteer work out in the bush.
You know the worst thing about cicadas? THE F***ING NOISE. URGH. CONSTANT. MONOTONOUS. NOISE.

If there is a hell it is filled with the sound of cicadas. Or was that crickets...? I dunno, they're both annoying.