Hello!
Dan Mozgai
My name is Dan Mozgai. Use this email address to contact me: cicadamania@gmail.com.
Cicada Mania History
I hope you enjoy the Cicada Mania website. 2010 will mark Cicada Mania’s 14th year on the web. Here’s what the site looked like back in 1998 two years after its launch.
Cicada Mania started as sort of an online wedding album for friends who were married in an outdoor ceremony in Westfield NJ during the 1996 Brood II emergence. Most of the pictures featured cicadas crawling around the wedding grounds. Eventually I added links to other cicadas sites and basic cicada information. Cicada Mania soon garnered a small but loyal fan base.
The 2004 Brood X emergence was a fantastic time for Cicada Mania: highlights included me appearing on CNN, NPR, and WABC radio, and seeing 50,000 site visitors in one day!
The 2007 Brood XIII emergence was fantastic as well. I finally got to meet fellow cicada enthusiasts and researchers Roy Troutman, Jerry Bunker, Gene Kritsky and Joe Green. I was also interviewed for Fuji TV.
Cicada Mania currently contains over 600 photos of cicadas (many high-res), video, a sound clip, a blog, plenty of FAQs and articles, a message board and, of course, t-shirts and mugs, which are my attempt at funding the site.
Roy Troutman
Many of the cicada photos and videos on the site come from Roy Troutman. Visit the Roy Troutman page for links to his images and his contact information.