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A bugs life! Virginia photographer stages brilliant images with CICADAS - including a birthday party, a Las Vegas wedding, and even a rock concert - as rare Brood X swarms the US Professional portrait photographer Oxana Ware, 39, said she finds cicadas kind of creepy and her kids hate them So she decided to do something fun and silly with them in her backyard She sets up elaborate scenes and puts live cicadas in them Some of the cicadas have competed in mini Olympics, while others have traveled...

Say it looks like an alien invasion, but the good news is, theyre basically harmless. >> theyre not going to bite. theyre not going to sting. theyre not going to carry away small children and dogs like the flying monkeys in "the wizard of oz." >> this is an amazingly beautiful creature. >> reporter: oxana wares three young children were initially creeped out by cicadas, so the professional photographer staged them in playful scenes. her blog went viral. playful scenes. so your kids are no longer...

“They have a lot of charisma,” says Oxana Ware, who uses inventive props and sets for her shots of the Brood X bugs.

Cicadas make their Olympic debut in miniature art scenes  01 Jun 2021 - 13:03 Cicadas are posed in a band scene by Virginia photographer and cicada enthusiast Oxana Ware in Arlington, Virginia, US, in this May 2021 handout photo. Oxana Ware/Handout via Reuters Reuters Arlington: Cicadas competing in the Olympics or jamming in a band? How about a line of cicadas waiting in line for vaccinations at CVS? The appearance of the insects known as Brood X, or Brood 10, along the eastern United Stat...

The appearance of the insects known as Brood X, or Brood 10, along the eastern United States after a 17-year hiatus has inspired Virginia professional portrait photographer Oxana Ware to create small-scale art installations, placing the ubiquitous bugs in novel and unexpected settings. "I try to show people the best in any situation and I like people to be less stressed in life and have more fun."

A cicada is posed in an Olympic weightlifting scene by Virginia photographer and cicada enthusiast Oxana Ware in Arlington, Virginia, in this May 2021 handout photo.    Oxana Ware/Handout via REUTERS

How about a line of cicadas waiting in line for vaccinations at CVS?

Brood X cicadas emerge after 17 years to swarm the Northeast (Warning: Graphic images) By Leslie Gornstein Pamela Zhang via Instagram Do you live in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia, New York, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, North Carolina, Delaware, Kentucky, eastern Tennessee or nearby environs? How about Washington, D.C.? Then theres a good chance youve met a Brood X cicada by now — maybe even up close.  The 2021 pheno...