Thanks to Roy Troutman for reminding me about my interview which appeared in the Star Ledger recently. It’s about Cicada Mania and blogging in general.
October 20, 2007
October 10, 2007
Cicada Quote from author John Berger
‘Your voice, he interrupted, is also like a cicada, not only a corn-crake. Do you know the legend about cicadas?
They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems
they wanted to.’
… from author John Berger.
October 6, 2007
Cicada Time in Australia
It’s cicada time in Australia again, so I’m reposting my list of Australian cicada names. Australians are the best in the world at naming animals.
Australia has the best cicada names:
- Cyclochila australasiae
- Green Grocer
- Yellow Monday [picture]
- Chocolate Soldier
- Blue Moon [incredibile picture at bottom of page]
- Masked Devil [picture]
- Macrotristria angularis
- Cherrynose or Whiskey Drinker [picture close to bottom of page]
- Tettigarcta crinita
- Hairy Cicada
- Pauropsalta extrema
- Typewriter [picture]
- Lembeja paradoxa
- Bagpipe Cicada [picture]
- Cystosoma saundersii
- Bladder Cicada
- Aleeta curvicosta
- Floury Baker
- Psaltoda moerens
- Redeye
- Cherryeye
- Anapsaltoda pulchra
- Golden Emperor [picture]
- Arenopsaltria fullo
- Sandgrinder [picture]
- Arunta perulata
- White Drummer
- Macrotristria godingi
- Tiger Prince [picture]
- Thopha saccata
- Double Drummer [picture]
- Psaltoda plaga
- Black Prince [picture close to center of page]
- Tamasa tristigma
- Brown Bunyip [Brown Bunyip]
There’s plenty more on the Australian fauna or the incredible CSIRO Common Names site.
New photos from Iván Jesus Torresano García
Two new cicada photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García from Spain:
Cicada Video Post
Here is a new video created by Iván Jesus Torresano García:
Tibicen plebejus en el parque forestal de Entrevías.6/7/2007:
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A video of a cicada in Seoul Korea singing found by Iván:
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Another video of a cicada in Seoul Korea singing, found by Iván featuring amusing commentary:
“You won’t get the girl if you don’t sing!”
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Phoebe found this video of a cicada trying to lay eggs in furniture:
Magicicadas in the Fall? Experts say it’s possible
We received a report of Magicicadas being heard in the fall. Normally Magicicadas appear in the spring of course, but they might be tricked into emerging later if a dormant tree is revived.
My speculation: maybe the warm fall weather has tricked them into thinking it is spring.
I have no visual or audio evidence for you.