Cicada Mania

Dedicated to cicadas, the most amazing insects in the world.

Cicada Audio/Sound page

Magicicada Audio by Dan

An MP3 sound file of the emergence in Princeton (1.5MB, MP3). Free to download and enjoy.

Cicadas Singing in Princeton in 2004 by cicadamania

Video of a Neocicada hieroglyphica singing

Neocicada hieroglyphica singing by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.

More of Joe Green's Cicada videos of cicada calls:

External Sites

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.

Cicada Vidoes and Sounds Alarm Squawks and Mating Calls is also very helpful for identifing 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.