Three new galleries and 23 new cicada photographs
We have three new galleries:
NEW! Gina Scarborough’s Florida Cicada. 18 great pictures of a pink cicada. We need help identifying this cicada, so let us know if you have a clue what it is.
NEW! Giant pictures of Bill Lesar’s Tibicen dorsata. You’ve seen this cicada in an earlier post — now you can see huge versions of Bill’s photographs.
NEW! Andrea’s 2005 Cicada Nymph Exoskeleton Gallery. Three big pictures of discarded exoskeletons.
Its kind of hard at the teneral stage to ID a cicada before it is fully hardened. Pink wing veins
I have found to be common in some species of Cicadas while molting. However, this color receeds
as the cicada hardens and is only temporary. While I am unfamiliar with some species of Florida
Cicadas I can at least offer that this specimen is a female.
A good place to start for ID purposes would be here:
http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/c700fl1.htm
Comment by Gerry — October 12, 2005 @ 12:00 pm
Just because it has a big head in proportion to the rest of its body, it might be Tibicen davisi
Comment by Paul K. — October 17, 2005 @ 9:11 pm
i am doing a report on the cidada soo if u can tell me anything thing about this insect leave a comment and after you are done with your info put for nicole
thanks nicole
Comment by nicole — October 24, 2005 @ 6:33 am
in australia it is commonly known as a brown baker, floury baker or a double drummer i don’t know how it got its name it is akittle larger than most cicadas with a deeper sound it is pretty common on the coast of New South Wales.
Comment by shane — October 24, 2005 @ 5:58 pm