Hopefully a few straggler Magicicadas will show up in Princeton this year.

Here’s a selection of links from last years emergence:

• Cicada photos from Julie Angarone.
• A video of cicadas in Princeton.
• Jim Occi’s cicada photos.
• X: sounds, images, info.
• An MP3 of princeton cicadas (1.5MB).
• Cicada photos from Seth and Paul Rader.
• Bugging the bugs: Students collect data on cicadas
• 2004 Princeton Commencement and cicadas.
• Campus a hospitable habitat for cicadas

The Cincinnati Enquirer has a new article about Gene Kritsky.

The 5 billion periodical cicadas that invaded Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky last summer, cutting into tree branches to lay their eggs, have caused more intensive blooming this summer in parts of Delhi, Green Township, Mount Healthy and other areas hard hit by the red-eyed insects, said Gene Kritsky, a cicada expert and biology professor at the College of Mount St. Joseph.

We have a new message board format. There are three main boards:

1) Cicada Questions.

2) Magicicada Sightings: perfect for posting straggler sightings.

3) Other Cicada Sightings: for cicadas other than Magicicadas.

Each board has its own RSS feed as well.

Here’s a review for a Japanese Anime titled Human Crossing: the Cicadas of Winter. From the review, it doesn’t seem to have much to do with cicadas, but I’m posting the link anyway.

Here’s a list of updates, to other cicada web sites:

The URL of Gene Kritsky’s web site has changed to: http://inside.msj.edu/academics/faculty/kritskg/cicada/.

Looks like the Iowa State Entomology Index is gone, however, Iowa State’s search engine reveals many exceptional cicada sites.

If the straggler Magicicada arrive, it will be anytime between NOW and about a month from now. Keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Kids having a cicada eating contest. Just look at the joy on their faces.

From Paul Frank’s Language Jottings:

Chán bù zhī xuě: The cicada knows nothing of snow. Said of someone who’s ignorant or inexperienced. There’s also the word huigu, platypleura kaempferi, a kind of bright-colored cicada, and the saying huigu bu zhi chun qiu, the cicada is ignorant of spring or autumn, i.e., limited in experience or vision.

Deep End Dining has a post about cicada soup, including a picture of a big steaming bowl of them.

Flickr is a fun site, which lets you post your digital photos on the web. There are currently 220 cicada photos on Flickr and some of them are quite amusing.