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June 13, 2007

Emergence Update for June 13th

Filed under: Brood XIII — by @ 5:15 pm

Locations:

  • Still strong in Lombard and Hinsdale
  • Valparaiso Indiana
  • Like a horror movie on La Grange road
  • All over the downtown of Elmhurst
  • Des Plaines River Forest Preserves on Lake Ave., just east of River Road
  • Brookfield is infested
  • Marseilles is full of them!
  • The forest preserve just south of the tollway and the Cumberland exit
  • Tons of cicadas near the Purdue-North Central campus in Westville
  • North Ave in Elmhurst between York Rd & Rt 83, also southside of I290 on the way to Oak Park & on Irving Park Rd in the Forest Preserves in Schiller Park

Video:

True cicada maniacs will want to view this news story featuring John Cooley and Gerry Bunker.

Photos:

Some great photos on flickr by Catt: Cicada on a Pine Cone, Cicada on a Pine Cone, Cicada on a Shell!

June 12, 2007

3 Contest Winners

Filed under: Brood XIII,Eye Color,Magicicada — by @ 8:45 am

Here’s 3 Cicada Contest winners.

Jen Swofford in Highland Park, IL:
blue eyed cicada

Mark Muto in North Riverside, IL (click for larger version):

blue and red eyed cicadas

Sonja Kassebaum of Gurnee, IL (click for larger versions):

white and red eyed cicadas

yellow, red, orange

Blue Eyed Magicicada from Villa Park IL

Filed under: Brood XIII,Eye Color,Magicicada,Photos — by @ 8:13 am

Paula King’s son found this cicada in Villa Park, IL. In the picture they eyes are white, but Paula observed that the eye color would actually vacillate between blue and white over the course of time. That’s an important observation.

blue eyed cicada

Here’s another picture from Paula of a cicada with mustard colored eyes:

yellow eyed cicadas

See more images of Magicicadas with white and yellow colored eyes.

Blue Eyed Magicicada from Downers Grove, IL

Filed under: Brood XIII,Eye Color,Photos — by @ 8:10 am

This photos of a blue-eyed Magicicada was taken by Maria Wagner in Downers Grove, IL.

Blue Eyed Cicada

June 11, 2007

Cicadas Mating

Filed under: Brood XIII,Photos — by @ 9:23 am

A photo of cicadas mating by Christina T.

Cicada Mating

June 9, 2007

Peek-a-boo cicada

Filed under: Brood XIII,Magicicada,Photos — by @ 9:56 pm

Magicicadas

Another cicada photo from the Ryerson Woods.

Cicada Contest!!!

Filed under: Brood XIII — by @ 9:37 am

Cicada Contest!

The contest is officially over. Here’s most of the winners.

Emergence Report for 6/9

Filed under: Brood XIII — by @ 6:57 am

This should have been part 2 yesterday:

Locations

  • Riverside
  • Thornton Lansing Rd in Thornton, IL as well as Lansing, IL in the area of the model airplane field on Stony Island Ave.
  • Old School Forest Preserve in Libertyville, IL

News

What Makes Cicadas So Loud? (The Daily Green).

Why so many deformed cicadas? and How to Dispose of Cicadas (The Chicago Gardener).

Do you hear that? Sound of cicadas here to remind us that Mother Nature’s pulling the strings (Sun-times).

Video

How LOUD are cicadas?

Collecting MadVideos — Brood XIII cicadas arrive in Wisconsin.

Cicada video (by Love is the most excellent way). See and hear them!

theVOICE – Cicadas in Oak Brook. “On this episode of theVOICE we head out to the Oak Brook Park District’s Dean residence where the 17-year cicadas have taken over. The property has been undisturbed for over 60 years and has become a perfect nesting place for the cicadas.”

Daily Nightly’s Chicago Cicadas.

Blogs

A handful of cicada photos (by ThreadStory)

More cicada photos (by Superhua)

Great pictures of seagulls swarming a suburb to get at cicadas. Plus, a picture of the coolest Christmas tree ever.

The Cicada are Coming… and coming and coming.

Invasion: Cicada on a Car Tire.

Symphony of cicadas. Now appearing in 60532.

“They’re Alive!” (by Smoldering Embers in a Mohawk Campfire who is, BTW, an excellent speller).

Life Goes On: Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Precious Poodle has Cicada Mania.

Return of the Cicadas. Cool picture!

Cicada Mania typically steers clear of politics, but in the interest of being canonical: Neocons: The Cicadas of Politics .

Tying a cicada fishing fly.

Photos from the Cicada Mania festival

Filed under: Brood XIII,Roy Troutman — by @ 6:06 am

Here are two photos from the Cicada Mania festival by Roy Troutman:

An orange eyed Magicicada:

orange eyed Magicicada

3 nymphs crawling up a tree limb:

3 nymphs crawling up a tree

Mating Magicicada

Filed under: Brood XIII — by @ 5:57 am

Here’s a picture of two Magicicada mating from Michael Fiorenzo. Photos taken in LaGrange.

mating Magicicada

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