Cicada Mania

Flickr Cicada Photos pool

Dan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:15:46 +0000

If you’re on Flickr (the photo sharing site) and you have some cicada photos, add them to my cicada photos group pool.

Here’s a slide show of the images from the pool:

Terengganua sibylla

Dan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:55:53 +0000

P1020993, originally uploaded by The Aperture Studio. From Flickr.

A pair of Terengganua sibylla mating.

This website has a audio file of the Terengganua sibylla signing.

10 new Tibicen photos from Elias Bonaros

Dan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:35:30 +0000

Elias was kind enough to send us 10 Tibicen photos he took in 2009. Photos include Tibicen tibicen (chloromera), Tibicen lyricen, Tibicen tibicen & Cicada Killer Wasp on Elias’ fingers, Tibicen canicularis and Tibicen linnei.

You can view the gallery page for all, or visit the individual photos:

Female Tibicen tibicen eclosing.

T. lyricen male in the teneral phase.

Tibicen tibicen female with emerald green eyes.

Cicada Killer Wasp and Tibicen tibicen on Elias’ finger.

Cicada Killer Wasp and Tibicen tibicen on Elias’ fingers.

Tibicen canicularis eclosing.

T. canicualris eclosing in Lakewood NJ.

T. linnei teneral and its exuvia.

Don’t try this:

Cicada Mania updates

Dan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:47:20 +0000

New gallery: Australian cicadas found by Lisa Morgan’s kids in the Wet Tropics rainforest located in Far North Queensland, Australia. Features a Brown Bunyip and a Psaltoda.

New gallery: False cicada chimneys. Bangkok, Thailand.

And new audio/video from Joe Green:

Joe Green’s D. olympusa videos.

Joe Green’s N. hieroglyphica videos.

Joe Green’s M. septendecula calls.

Joe Green’s M. cassini calls.

Joe Green’s M. septendecim calls.

Diceroprocta viridifascia (aka Salt Marsh Cicada) calls

Dan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:18:27 +0000

Here’s some D. viridifascia calls recorded by Joe Green. You can hear them, but you won’t see them in the video.

They sound like Maracas to me.

D. viridifascia calling by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.

There’s plenty of pictures of D. viridifascia on the Bug Guide website.

Tibicen resonans calls

Dan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:10:31 +0000

Joe Green recently provided Cicada Mania with videos of various cicadas calling, and I posted them on Vimeo.

Here’s a selection of T. resonans calls, including alarm calls:

T. resonans alarm call by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.

T. resonans calling by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.

Joe’s Tibicen resonans were recorded in Florida. Here is a photo of a T. resonans also by Joe.

New URLs for the University of Florida sites

Dan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:22:32 +0000

Looks like the University of Florida sites have new URLs.

Singing Insects of North America (http://www.entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/)

Homoptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae (http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/foltz/eny3005/lab1/Homoptera/Cicadid.htm)

Cicadas (of Florida), Neocicada hieroglyphica (Say), Tibicen, Diceroprocta and Melampsalta spp.

Mutant cicadas enjoying a Mongolian Hot Pot dinner

Dan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:28:54 +0000

This whimsical display of dismembered and “reassembled” cicadas enjoying a Mongolian Hot Pot dinner can be yours! It’s for sale on ebay!

Awesome!

New Cicada Videos from Joe Green

Dan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:58:30 +0000

Joe Green sent me a couple of CDs worth of North American cicadas calling and has graciously allowed us to use them for the site. The highlight of these videos is that they feature cicada calls.

I have to add descriptions, and about 50 more videos, but for now check out what’s uploaded so far.

Here’s a sample:

hieroglyphica 6-07 044 from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.

Paraguayan cicadas

Dan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:50:12 +0000

Have you ever wondered what cicadas look like or sound like in Paraguay? The Fauna Paraguayan website has many photos and sound files of Paraguayan cicadas.

Here is a small sample from their website:

Chonosia crassipennis:

Quesada gigas: