A cycada eclosing on the evening of May 13, 2004.

Here you see a cicada emerging from its exoskeleton. Each image was captured at 1 min intervals. Once the cicada settles on a spot to undergo eclosion, the process takes about 1.5 hours to achieve wing expansion plus an additional 2 to 3 hours to develop the black color. This movie shows a total of 4.6 hours.