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Magicicada Audio
Magicicada is the type of periodical cicada (aka 17 year cicadas) currently emerging in the eastern United States. Note: they typically only sing during the day.
Various Magicicada species chorusing in Princeton:
An MP3 sound file of the emergence in Princeton (1.5MB, MP3). Free to download and enjoy.
Magicicada septendecula:
More: Chorus, Calling and 3 Courting songs of M. septendecula.
Magicicada cassini:
More: Chorus, Calling and 3 Courting songs of M. cassini
Magicicada septendecim:
Court I
Court II and III
More: Chorus, Calling and Courting songs of M. septendecim
The rest of the cicadas on this page are annual cicadas.
Tibicen Audio
Tibicen tibicen (chloromera):
Tibicen resonans:
Neocicada audio
Neocicada hieroglyphica:
Neocicada hieroglyphica:
Diceroprocta audio
Diceroprocta olympusa:
Diceroprocta viridifascia:
Other websites with cicada sounds:
- Insect Singers is a great new site from Kathy Hill and David Marshall featuring dozens of cicada songs of North American cicadas.
- The Songs of Insects audio page has many excellent samples of American cicada songs. Their book is worth buying too.
- Checklist of Cicadas North of Mexico features many songs.
- Cicada Videos and Sounds Alarm Squawks and Mating Calls is also very helpful for identifying cicada sounds.
- Selected North American cicada species has about 20 song samples too.
- For more cicada audio look for links marked with an AUDIO tag on the links page, and read my blog post about cicada sounds.