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RosinaBloom Waihi, New Zealand(Zone 1) Jan 08, 2022

An olive green bee-like insect with a crab-like pincer - found alive but later died - on the concrete path beside my back lawn in the morning of 30th December 2021.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jan 08, 2022

It's a nymph of a cicada - Hemiptera/Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae - see https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/127445437/theyll-be-out-and-theyll-be-loud-next-wave-of-cicadas-expected-to-emerge-late-january

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RosinaBloom Waihi, New Zealand(Zone 1) Jan 11, 2022

Thank you!

Maybe more likely Chorus Cicada (Amphipsalta zelandica) - https://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/14289/

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