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Cicada Shell Times and How to Catch

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Cicada Shell Times

The Cicada Shell is one of the Cicadas from Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH). Learn all about the Cicada Shell and how to catch them below!

Cicada Shell Sell Price

Cicada Shell
Sell Price 10 Bells
Type Cicada
Rarity ★☆☆☆☆

The Cicada Shell is a common bug and sells for 10 Bells.

Cicada Shell Location and Times

Cicada Shell Times

Location On trees
Time July to August
North Hemisphere
All Day
January to February
South Hemisphere
All Day

You can find the Cicada Shell on trees all day.

Find it from July to August on the Northern Hemisphere, or from January to February on the Southern Hemisphere.

Cicada Shell Months

Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Cicada Shell
Northern Hemisphere Calendar
January July ACNH - Cicada Shell
February August ACNH - Cicada Shell
March September
April October
May November
June December
Cicada Shell
Southern Hemisphere Calendar
January ACNH - Cicada Shell July
February ACNH - Cicada Shell August
March September
April October
May November
June December

How to Catch the Cicada Shell

Steps Directions
1
  Equip your Net ACNH - Net
2   Approach the Cicada Shell
3   Swing your net!

Steps to catching Cicada Shell will the same for bugs on trees, stumps, and rocks.

1. Equip Your Net

To catch a bug, you'll need to equip your net! Press the X Button to go into your pockets and select your net.

You can also select it from your Tool Ring!

2. Approach Bug

The Cicada Shell can fly away if you move too closely too quickly. Hold down the A Button and move the Right Stick to approach it carefully.

3. Swing Your Net

Once you've inched close enough, release the A Button to swing your net. You'll then be a proud owner of the Cicada Shell!

Cicada Shell Additional Info

Dialogue When Caught

I found a cicada shell! I'm glad the little guy came out of it!

Dialogue When Donated to Blathers

  Cicadas! The nerve! Not only are they loud, they leave their cicada shells lying about!

 When it's time for a cicada nymph to turn into an adult, you see, it clings to a tree and sheds its exoskeleton.

 Then it just leaves this shell of its former self hanging right there! Awful manners, really...and awfully terrifying too.

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Comment

92 Anonymous Anonymous about 4 years

Oh cicada shell, You are hidden so well. Please show me your feet, So my collection I can complete.

91 Anonymous Anonymous about 4 years

i’m praying for the bug gods to help me

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