This is one of my favourite places at our school. A nature walk where children can play, explore and get out of the hot sun! When I'm on duty I walk through this area. It's beautiful and usually peaceful as children rummage around in the dirt for one of nature's treasures.
One day on duty some boys were showing me a cicada they'd found that had just emerged from its 17 year underground development. They showed me the holes in the ground where the cicada emerges from. The cicada they held was a pale green and its wings hadn't dried yet so it couldn't fly. The shell in this picture is the exoskeleton of a cicada. They shed and they're everywhere. Children love collecting them. I couldn't find a cicada to take a picture of today but they're really ugly and noisy. They look like prehistoric flies. Uniquely New Zealand.
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