Here’s a picture of Magicicada eggs from Roy Troutman:
July 9, 2007
Brood XIII, rotten but not forgotten
Brood XIII is all but gone in and few select areas (like Westmont IL for instance). Will you miss them? You might find a couple stragglers next year, but you’re going to have to wait until 2024 for the next Brood XIII emergence.
At this point you should start to see flagging from the Brood XIII cicadas: brown, dead leaves where the cicadas laid their eggs. This blog has a good picture of flagging. Don’t worry: the cicadas have helped out the tree by pruning the weak leaves and branches.
There is good news: the Tibicen cicadas are beginning to emerge. Tibicens emerge every year in small numbers — if you’re patient, should be able to find one of these shy cicadas in your yard or local park.
If you’ve willing to travel, you can see and hear the Brood XIV next year too.
Deanna’s cicada photos on Flickr are a nice representation of the Brood XIII emergence. Check them out whenever you want to reminisce.
More Brood XIII photos to come, and lots of other cicada fun is coming up, so stay tuned!
Update: make sure you check out all the cool images people added to Comments section of the CicadaMania MySpace page.
July 3, 2007
Cicadas (and me) on Fuji Network News
A few of you might have noticed the film crew following me around the Cicada Mania festival. They filmed me at the festival, as well as back in Jersey — a once in a life time (or maybe once in 17 years) experience. The news cast aired yesterday in Japan, but you might be able to see it on a show called “Morning Eye” in North America.
Here is the final news story:
Roy Troutman, Gerry Bunker and Joe Green also appear in the video.