>>I live in Minnesota and I found this insect on my porch screen door mid-day. It has eyes kind of like a beetle, but does not seem to have a hardness to it like a beetle. It's wings are see-through, but have a metallic green coloring on the outside of them. It appears to have a proboscis like a butterfly, its body is about 1 inch long and fat and eyes are very small on the far side of its head. It's body coloring is beige/tan with specks of black, silver and green. Not hard like a beetle, not long enough to be a dragon fly, far to big to be a house fly lol....clueless. If anyone knows what this is please let me know what it is and if possible what it eats.
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it's an annual "dog day" cicada. You can tell them apart from the 13- & 17-year periodical cicadas from the color... the periodicals are black with red eyes. The annuals have a much shorter life cycle of only a couple years unlike the periodicals.
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The Invert Collection:
* 0.0.1 Aphonopelma anax - Texas Tan
* 0.0.1 Aphonopelma chalcodes - Desert Blond
* 0.0.1 Avicularia avicularia - Pink-toe
* 0.0.4 Avicularia geroldi - Brazilian Blue Pink-toe
* 0.1.0 Brachypelma auratum - Mexican Flameknee
* 1.4.0 Brachypelma emilia - Mexican Red-leg
* 2.1.0 Brachypelma smithi - Mexican Red-knee
* 0.0.1 Cyclosternum fasciatum - Costa Rican Tiger Rump
* 1.0.2 Grammostola pulchra - Brazilian Black
