http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas Dedicated to cicadas, the most amazing insects in the world. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:44:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please excuse our appearance... ...while we make some changes to the site. I've been making subtle changes to the site lately mostly moving links to the cicada links page, rebuilding the navigation (at the top of the page), link checking, rebuilding the video page (now if Revver will cooperate), deleting orphaned ... http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2009/07/05/please-excuse-our-appearance/ I just finished watching the BBC mini-series Life in the Undergrowth staring several million invertebrates and David Attenborough. (I watched it in between the picnics, fireworks, and swimming that mostly occupies my time.) Fans of cicadas and land-dwelling invertebrates will love this show. Attenborough is the best when it ... http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2009/07/05/life-in-the-undergrowth/ The Tibicen is the genus of annual cicada most people are familiar with. Here are some general details about Tibicen: They emerge every summer. They do not emerge in broods. They emerge in small numbers (small relative to periodical cicadas). They are timid and elusive compared to periodical cicadas. Most are physically larger than ... http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2009/07/03/time-for-the-yearly-tibicen-post/ Roy Troutman took some excellent Tibicen superba photos while visiting Texas. Here's a preview: http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2009/06/20/superb-tibicen-superba/ I started a group on Flickr for Cicada Photos. Each week I'll troll Flickr for the best and invite them to the group, but any one is welcome to submit their photos! http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2009/06/07/new-cicada-photo-flickr-group/ Huechys sanguinea, originally uploaded by =spurdog=. An amazing red-orange cicada. Most of the body and wings turn black when it's done drying out, but it is just as amazing. http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2009/06/07/huechys-sanguinea/ Cicada Mania is 13 years old. In 1996, I started the site to document some Brood II Magicicada photos I took in my back yard and at a friend's wedding, and the site took off from there. The site has had 7 different URLs over the years. In 2004, during ... http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2009/06/01/13-years-of-cicada-mania/ After promising a year or more ago I made a t-shirt design out of my cartoon-style cicada. There's a $10 shirt, a mug, and more, like this shirt: http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2009/05/31/new-shirt-design/ Earlier this month I posted the video of insect enthusiast Sandy Aiello interviewed by NBC Washington about the Magicicada emergence. Sandy Aiello was kind enough to let us post some of her Magicicada photos on Cicadamania: http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2009/05/31/magicicada-photos-from-sandy-aiello/ On Monday (Memorial Day) I was lucky enough to find a lone Magicicada septendecim brood II straggler in Metuchen, NJ. This is a male, and he was about 1.5 inches or 3.8 centimeters long. UPDATED! Now with high-rez versions -- just click the images for the huge (multi-megabyte versions). ... http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2009/05/26/magicicada-septendecula-photos/