This one I can’t figure out, mostly because it’s well dead. Sheri T. took the photo.

The yellow eyes might be due to its postmortem condition, but they do make the specimen interesting.

Brian Baldwin sent over some cicada photos for an ID. Here’s my guesses (below). If you have a more accurate guess, post it in the Comments.

T. dorsata:

At first I thought T. walkeri, but now I’m leaning towards Brain’s guess of T. superba. This would be the first superba with a brown mesonotum that I’ve ever seen.:

T. dealbata:

Same Tibicen old video, now without the shedoobie rock n’ roll:

Ivan is back with for cicada video from Spain.

Update: here are the corresponding photos.

Listen to those Okanagana sing! They’re intense.

I took some time and extended and edited my Brood X Magicicada video from 2004 in Princeton, NJ:

4:32 minutes of cicadas.

I snagged a couple of Tibicen today.

A colorful chloromera:

and a, um… lyricen, maybe (I’ve never seen one quite like this):

They were still moving a little when I took the photos.

Gerry Bunker has published an online guide to Pinning, Labeling and Preserving Your Cicadas. This is excellent information if you plan to start a collection.

If you would rather photograph cicadas instead, read How to Photograph Bugs and Insects. Over the years Roy Troutman has supplied Cicada Mania with many excellent macro photos of cicadas. Fans of macro photography will also appreciate these photos by Todd Quinn, Vic Fazio’s Tibicen dorsata and my Tibicen chloromera.

And just for the heck of it, here’s a list of insect ID websites:

Bug Guide, Insect Identification, What’s that Bug, and Insect Identifier.

Normally I can get the ID of a cicada fairly quickly, thanks to folks like Gerry and Paul Krombholz. Aside from Locusts, the insect most people confuse with cicadas is the Sphinx Moth.

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Hey!

I was interviewed by the Newark Star Ledger for their Jersey Blogs section.

Direct link to the article.

Other calling cicada from Cali:

Not Phoebe’s video, but a Magicicada documentary:

Not Phoebe’s video, The Cicada Chorus is a song that is composed of cicada sounds. Most of the video in the video is actually Roy Troutman’s video footage. Watch the video below, and then find the original video here.