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.
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.
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.
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.
This whimsical display of dismembered and “reassembled” cicadas enjoying a Mongolian Hot Pot dinner can be yours! It’s for sale on ebay!
Awesome!
Joe Green sent me a couple of CDs worth of North American cicadas calling and has graciously allowed us to use them for the site. The highlight of these videos is that they feature cicada calls.
I have to add descriptions, and about 50 more videos, but for now check out what’s uploaded so far.
Here’s a sample:
hieroglyphica 6-07 044 from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
Have you ever wondered what cicadas look like or sound like in Paraguay? The Fauna Paraguayan website has many photos and sound files of Paraguayan cicadas.
Here is a small sample from their website:
Chonosia crassipennis:
Quesada gigas:
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