...emerges from it's exoskeleton and morphs into an adult.
It takes 13 years for this species of Cicada to emerge from it's subterranean home where it will quickly mate then die.
The female will lay about 600 eggs during her brief life of about a month.
Six to eight weeks later the eggs will mature into nymphs where they will immediately
begin their descent into their 13 to 17-year underground home.
Their incredibly long nymphal stage is unmatched within the animal kingdom and remains a mystery to scientists.
The male Cidada has the loudest mating call of any insect, capable of being heard up to a half-mile away.