popping up for the past week or so, have been finding their bodies and wings, not many but enough to notice. Brood X perhaps. Maybe the heat?
Cicada's have been
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Is that what this huge, ugly fellow is? He was an uninvited guest at the dinner table on the porch a couple days ago. Looks like his "paws" are covered with pollen.
Yep. They emerge from the ground, lay their eggs and die.
Everything you ever wanted to know about them;
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Awesome site 46er ! We had the 17 year cicadas emerge at my house when I was in my teens. They were distributed around the base of gray birch. One of the most amazing natural phenomena I have witnessed. Everyone was taking their shed skins and hanging them on their shirts. 
Here is your cicada Boyd, according to the site that 46er posted.
Megatibicen auletes (Germar, 1834)
Here is your cicada Boyd, according to the site that 46er posted.
Megatibicen auletes (Germar, 1834)