We have a new gallery of Costa Rican cicadas courtesy of Jose Mora. Jose wrote:

Greetings from COSTA RICA!!!!!
Hello my friend, i really like your website please keep going!!, these fantastic insects have a very unusual and fascinating life.

I’m from Costa Rica, the name of the province where I live is HEREDIA and right now we’re in “cicada season” jajajaja .

Maybe you have heard about this already, the popular name for the cicadas here and probably all the rest of hispanoamerica is “CHICHARRA”…. well i would like to share with you some pictures i took around 3 days ago in a little park near my house, hope you’ll like it!!

Here’s a sample:

Here’s some new photos from photographer and cicada enthusiast Adam Fleishman. As always, they’re great photos. If you can help ID the first two photos, we’d appreciate it.

Needs an ID:

Needs an ID:

T. dorsata:

T. superba

Visit Adam’s website Cometmoth Sight and Sound

Today is March 1st, and in a couple of months the Brood XIV cicadas will be here. I’ll work up a comprehensive article in the coming weeks. Historically speaking, Brood XIV has emerged in Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. Some of Brood XIV pre-emerged in 2007, ands pictures of that on the site.

The first sign of an emergence is usually news articles. Here’s one of the first:

Cicadas are coming in May from the Times Tribune in Scranton PA.

Beyond Brood XIV.

John Beaver and Judith Baker Waller’s cicada art exhibit is currently going on at the Aaron Bohrod Art Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley. Judith is a fan of this site, so it’s great to see her having the opportunity to exhibit her work.

And here’s and NPR Story about eating bugs including cicadas.