Another excellent photo from Flickr
July 3, 2008
June 13, 2008
A creative use of cicada skins: a cicada wreath
A Cicada wreath constructed in 2004 by Jenny Pate:
I think it’s awesome! Thanks to Jenny’s husband Bill for sharing.
Anyone else have an example of cicada arts & crafts to share?
May 29, 2008
May 18, 2008
Cicadas are popping out all over the place!
Another sweet cicada photo has emerged on Flickr
May 11, 2008
Another Periodical Cicada Photo on Flickr
By this time next week Flickr.com will be swarming with cicada photos.
17 year Cicada photos are showing up on Flickr
17 year cicada photos are starting to show up on Flickr.com.
May 10, 2008
Cicada Event in Cincinnati
Cicada event in Cincinnati area on May 31st. Gene Kritsky will be doing a lecture. I encourage all cicada fans to see Gene speak — he is both informative and very entertaining.
Cicada Lecture at Rowe Woods
Learn all about the 17-year periodical cicadas that will be emerging this summer in Clermont County. Dr. Gene Kritsky, professor at the College of Mt. St. Joseph will share his knowledge of these unique insects.
Other Info:
Age Group:Adults
Date:5/31/2008 Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Current/Maximum Registered: 3/50
Cost: $6; with CNC membership $4.
http://www.cincynature.org/calendar.asp?by_month=1&MONTH=5&YEAR=2008
April 27, 2008
Cicada Links and Video to hold you over… part two
Gene Kritsky awaiting their noisy return:
UPI: Scientist awaits cicadas’ noisy return
Gene Kritsky, a professor of biology at the College of Mount St. Joseph, said this year most of the bugs are expected to appear in the area east of Interstate 71.
The Enquirer Cicadas making noisy return
Gene Kritsky, a professor of biology at the College of Mount St. Joseph, says in a news release that cicadas are coming to eastern Cincinnati this May.
Video:
5 WLWT: Cicadas Return. Video features a meteorologist presenting general information about the emergence.
NECN.com: Cicada pheomenon interview with entomologist Doug Fraser. Very good.
A Kentucky article:
News Channel 5: Cicadas ready to reappear in Kentucky after 17 years
Gene Kritsky, a cicada expert at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, says their appearance will be spotty. That could be caused by a number of factors, including development that has dramatically changed landscapes since the early 1990s.
A Cape Cod artlce:
Cape Cod Times: Creeped out by creepy-crawly season on Cape
Periodical cicadas went underground on the Cape 17 years ago, and have been living off tree sap ever since. Experts expect them to emerge from their holes all at once, probably on a night in early May. They can number in the millions per acre, and cling to any vertical surface after coming from their holes, to molt, then fly up into the tree tops to mate.
April 19, 2008
Share Your Brood XIV Cicadas!!!
I originally posted this article last year, but the information is still good.
A lot has changed since I started this site in 1996, including the web — back then websites where static pages with a couple of images and links, and only geeks like myself knew how to make them.
Now there are lots of web sites where YOU can share your cicada photos and video. Now you can write about your cicada discoveries on a blog, read other cicada blogs, or share cool cicada web sites with the world using bookmarking sites like Digg and del.icio.us. The web is now all about you (and the cicadas you find). The power is in your hands: start sharing your cicadas!
Share Your Cicada Photos:
Flickr: Flickr is a web site where you can post and share your digital photos. You can also connect with other photographers and people with similar interests. It’s a fun site. When you post your cicada photos, don’t forget to tag them with tags like “cicada”, “broodxiv“, “Magicicada”, “17year”, “periodical”, etc. Don’t forget to include geographic information in the descriptions.
Panoramio: Panoramio is a photo sharing site like Flickr, but it places your photos in Google Maps, which is really cool.
As of 2008 Flickr lets you upload videos too.
Share Your Cicada Video:
YouTube: You’ve heard of YouTube, haven’t you? It’s a great site where you can upload your videos and share them with the world. Like Flickr, don’t forget to tag your cicada video with cool tags like “17year”, “cicadas”, “broodxiv”, and include geographic information in the decscription.
As an example, here’s a clip from the Return of the 17-year Cicadas video:
Others: MySpace videos, Veoh, Metacafe (has a family filter), Google Video (upload longer videos than with YouTube), Dailymotion, Yahoo Video (has SafeSearch) etc. Again the important thing is to look for a service that will allow to to send links to your videos and embed them in web pages.
Blog Your Cicada Stories:
You have a Blog, don’t you? If you don’t, it’s never too late to start! Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress, Typepad, and of course MySpace. Best of all, they’re free to use! So why not?
Reading & Searching Blogs:
The homepage of this site is a blog — if you notice, it’s composed of multiple posts about cicadas. Blogs aren’t like other websites, because they’re updated frequently and they’re composed of a series of posts. This series of post is known as a feed, which is available as both an xml file and the webpage you’re reading (too technical, I know…). Blog Search Engines are like regular search engines, but they’re adapted specifically to search blogs.
Blog Readers let you subscribe to blog feeds — subscribe to enough feeds and you can build your own virtual newspaper made up of the stories and news you care about (like cicadas).
- Google Reader is a blog feed reader.
- My Yahoo! has blog feed reader.
- Bloglines is a blog feed reader, and my personal favorite.
- News Gator is a blog feed reader.
- My MSN has blog feed reader.
- My AOL has blog feed reader.
- Windows Live has blog feed reader.
- Technorati is a blog search engine.
- Google Blog Search is a blog search engine.
Sharing the sites, video and images you find on the web:
Now, you’ve found a cool cicada website — you want to share it, and you want to remember it.
del.icio.us is my favorite bookmarking site. I can bookmark sites at work and then check them out later on my home computer, or at a friend’s house.
Digg is a super-popular forum where you can share and vote on (digg/bury) links. I read it every day.
StumbleUpon is a cool site and toolbar for your web browser. The toolbar will suggest cool sites for you to try. I’ve “stumbled upon” many cool sites using StumbleUpon.
More to explore: Furl, ma.gnolia, Newsvine, reddit, Simpy, Spurl, Yahoo MyWeb, Google bookmarks, Fark…
You don’t have to use these resources for just cicadas, but I’d be disappointed if you didn’t use them at all.