Flickr Cicada Photos pool
If you’re on Flickr (the photo sharing site) and you have some cicada photos, add them to my cicada photos group pool.
Here’s a slide show of the images from the pool:
Cicada Mania Hot Topics:
- Check out the new Cicada Photo Gallery. We have over 950 images and 98 galleries.
- Check out the redesigned Message Board.
- New site map organized by Genera and species.
- What do cicada larvae look like?
- 17 year cicadas! The early emergence of Brood II cicadas caused a stir in 2009.
March 9, 2010
March 8, 2010
Terengganua sibylla
A pair of Terengganua sibylla mating.
This website has a audio file of the Terengganua sibylla signing.
March 7, 2010
10 new Tibicen photos from Elias Bonaros
Elias was kind enough to send us 10 Tibicen photos he took in 2009. Photos include Tibicen tibicen (chloromera), Tibicen lyricen, Tibicen tibicen & Cicada Killer Wasp on Elias’ fingers, Tibicen canicularis and Tibicen linnei.
You can view the gallery page for all, or visit the individual photos:
Female Tibicen tibicen eclosing.
Female Tibicen tibicen eclosing.
T. lyricen male in the teneral phase.
Tibicen tibicen female with emerald green eyes.
Cicada Killer Wasp and Tibicen tibicen on Elias’ finger.
Cicada Killer Wasp and Tibicen tibicen on Elias’ fingers.
T. canicualris eclosing in Lakewood NJ.
T. linnei teneral and its exuvia.
Don’t try this:
January 16, 2010
Cicada Mania updates
New gallery: Australian cicadas found by Lisa Morgan’s kids in the Wet Tropics rainforest located in Far North Queensland, Australia. Features a Brown Bunyip and a Psaltoda.
New gallery: False cicada chimneys. Bangkok, Thailand.
And new audio/video from Joe Green:
Joe Green’s D. olympusa videos.
Joe Green’s N. hieroglyphica videos.
Diceroprocta viridifascia (aka Salt Marsh Cicada) calls
Here’s some D. viridifascia calls recorded by Joe Green. You can hear them, but you won’t see them in the video.
They sound like Maracas to me.
D. viridifascia calling by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
D. viridifascia calling by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
There’s plenty of pictures of D. viridifascia on the Bug Guide website.
Tibicen resonans calls
Joe Green recently provided Cicada Mania with videos of various cicadas calling, and I posted them on Vimeo.
Here’s a selection of T. resonans calls, including alarm calls:
T. resonans alarm call by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
T. resonans alarm call by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
T. resonans calling by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
T. resonans calling by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
Joe’s Tibicen resonans were recorded in Florida. Here is a photo of a T. resonans also by Joe.
New URLs for the University of Florida sites
Looks like the University of Florida sites have new URLs.
Singing Insects of North America (http://www.entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/)
Homoptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae (http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/foltz/eny3005/lab1/Homoptera/Cicadid.htm)
Cicadas (of Florida), Neocicada hieroglyphica (Say), Tibicen, Diceroprocta and Melampsalta spp.
January 11, 2010
Mutant cicadas enjoying a Mongolian Hot Pot dinner
This whimsical display of dismembered and “reassembled” cicadas enjoying a Mongolian Hot Pot dinner can be yours! It’s for sale on ebay!
Awesome!
