Cicada Mania: Roy Troutman: Page 3

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November 4, 2007

Cicada Horror Films, Solar Power and Fish Lures

Filed under: Cicadas Misc.,Pop Culture,Roy Troutman — by Dan Mozgai @ 8:56 am

Odds and Ends:

The Rock is Back: Filmmaker David “The Rock Nelson” is currently working on editing his latest series, “The Killer Cicadas,” and its sequel “Attack of the Giant Cicadas,” for which he caught 500 cicadas and ate some of them.

Nanotech News: Cicadas wings are being used as the inspiration for building better solar technology. (thanks Roy)

Peng Jiang, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, is drawing inspiration from the eyes of moths and the wings of cicadas to create unusual new anti-reflective and water-repellant coatings — coatings that appear to have potential to make solar cells both more efficient and self-cleaning. Windows in cars and homes, computer screens and other consumer products also could improve thanks to the super-transparent coatings.

Russian fishing lure company www.apico-fish.ru used one of Roy Troutman’s cicada photos for a recent ad for cicada themed lures.

Russian Cicada Lure

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August 5, 2007

1st Instar Magicicada Nymphs

Filed under: Brood XIV,Roy Troutman — by Dan Mozgai @ 4:04 pm

Here’s a photo of 1st instar Magicicada nymphs by Roy Troutman.

1st instar Magicicada nymphs

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July 9, 2007

Eggs!

Filed under: Magicicada,Roy Troutman — by Dan Mozgai @ 6:16 pm

Here’s a picture of Magicicada eggs from Roy Troutman:

Cicada Eggs

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June 9, 2007

Photos from the Cicada Mania festival

Filed under: Brood XIII,Roy Troutman — by Dan Mozgai @ 6:06 am

Here are two photos from the Cicada Mania festival by Roy Troutman:

An orange eyed Magicicada:

orange eyed Magicicada

3 nymphs crawling up a tree limb:

3 nymphs crawling up a tree

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June 1, 2007

Adult Cicadas

Filed under: Brood XIV,Roy Troutman — by Dan Mozgai @ 10:01 pm

This is as adult as it gets for Magicicadas.

Adult Magicicadas

Another great photo from Roy Troutman (who I apologize to for the crop job on his original photo).

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May 22, 2007

Brood XIV Stragglers in Ohio, Part 3

Filed under: Brood XIV,Roy Troutman — by Dan Mozgai @ 7:05 pm

Here’s another Brood XIV straggler from Roy Troutman’s yard. It’s hard to believe all that cicada once fit in that tiny skin.

Brood XIV Stragglers in Ohio, Part 3

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May 20, 2007

Imagining Magicicada

Filed under: Brood XIV,Roy Troutman — by Dan Mozgai @ 8:52 am

In the coming days I’ll get a lot of emails from people telling me that they’ve found albino cicadas — well, they aren’t albinos, they just haven’t turned black yet. Once a cicada splits its nymph skin and imagines into the adult form, it takes some time for it to turn the familiar black color. Now, if you find a cicada with blue eyes, that’s different, that’s unusual (about 1 in 1000), so we want to hear about that.

This picture was take by Roy Troutman, last night in Batavia Ohio. It’s important to note that this is a Brood XIV straggler and not a Brood XIII cicada.

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May 14, 2007

Brood XIV Stragglers in Ohio

Filed under: Brood XIV,Magicicada,Roy Troutman — by Dan Mozgai @ 8:58 pm

Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin aren’t the only states that can look forward to periodic cicadas.

Brood XIV stragglers are beginning to emerge in Ohio. So far we’ve had reports of chimneys from Roy and some photos of nymphs taken by Matt Berger in Terrace Park, Ohio (hopefully he’ll let us post the pics). Stragglers are periodic cicadas the emerge a year or more ahead or behind schedule. Brood XIV is due to emerge in many states next year (KY, GA, IN, MA, MD, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TN, VA, WVA), but a few will emerge this year instead.

Here’s a photo of a cicada chimney taken by Roy Troutman in Ohio.

chimney