Other Cicada Sightings
Have you found an cicada that isn’t a periodic cicada? Like a Tibicen chloromera (North America) or a Green Grocer? (Australia) Most cicadas are annual cicadas. There are 1000s of species found on every continent but Antarctica.
Report your sighting here.
Hi,
I live in Utah…I have never, ever seen a cicada in Utah before. I am from NC originally and i suspected when i heard it and saw it what it was. After we looked it up on this and other websites, we are sure that it is a cicada. I dont know what kind, but we have pictures and a captured one. It has black eyes though. Not like these on your site. I dont know too much about them, except no one in Utah knows what I’m talking about. Is this Weird?
Message by Adrienne — June 26, 2008 @ 7:38 pm
Hello Maria,
The one your son found may be a straggler. This means that due to an internal clock error or the young cicada’s nutritional state, some may emerge a year later than the rest.
This phenomenon is well known. Some can emerge a year early, a year later, 4 years early or 4 years later. Hope that helps. I will be looking for signs of stragglers next year here in NY.
Message by Elias — June 26, 2008 @ 4:25 am
Hi,
We got hit last year with the 17-yr. cicada in the Chicagoland area. We had thousands in our yard alone. Can someone tell me why my son found one two days ago? It is EXACTLY like the ones that invaded our yard last summer???
Message by Maria — June 22, 2008 @ 8:13 pm
Just spent the weekend on Cape Cod, Mass. After pulling off the highway we opened the car windows and heard this loud sound, My first thought was the fan belt was squealing,so I pulled over and shut off the motor. It turned out to be the noise from the cicadas. When we got to the cottage the noise was even louder. They do get quiet at night and start up again at sunrise. There are literally millioms of holes in the ground and the trees are covered with there shells. They fly around but are no bother to people. The seagulls seem to eat them in flight. Word is they only last a couple of weeks.
Message by chuck — June 22, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
I heard it before I saw it. I live in San Jose, California. I have never seen one before but my neighbor is from Arizona and she had seen them before. My sister moved to Maryland a few years ago for the ‘emerging of the cicadas’.
Message by Eileen — June 17, 2008 @ 10:36 am
Parts of Long Islands N/Shore are covered. These guys are friendlier than the green ones–very social–fly right over and land on you !!!
Message by Heather — June 15, 2008 @ 4:40 am
Here in Central Texas we are finding the species “Superb Green Cicada Tibicen chloromera (Walker)” doing their usual Cicada rituals. They’ve got a nice green color and are such an interesting insect to check-out up close - though I’m the only one, between my kids, who will do so!
Though how the Cicadas, around here, can stand the 100 degree temp’s around here is beyond me..
Message by Heidi — June 15, 2008 @ 1:48 am
RB — sounds like a species of Okanagana. There are a few and they sort of looks similar, but fit your description.
Message by Dan — June 14, 2008 @ 5:11 am
Can anyone tell us what sort of cicadas we have here in Northern Nevada - they are black with red legs and red stripes on the lower abdomen, but eyes are dark and not red like periodical cicadas we have seen in books? (Apart from the eye color, they look identical). They’re just coming out now en masse - pretty amazing. Never seen them before…Would love to know what they are…
Message by RB — June 13, 2008 @ 11:15 am
I was at French Park in Cincinnati on Sunday June 8th and saw a whole bunch of red-eyed cicadas coming out of their husks nad flying around. Amazing!
Message by Natalie Galluccio — June 9, 2008 @ 7:59 pm
There are lots of cicadas in Lexington, Kentucky. How long will they remain above ground and noisy? Days? Weeks?
Message by Barbara Christensen — June 9, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
I live in southeastern Idaho and we have some property down in Rockland outside of American Falls. We were there this weekend and were surprised to find cicadas! I lived in Maryland during the 2004 17-year Magicicada emergence. These Idaho cicadas are much different with black eyes and are a bit smaller.
Message by Beth Watson — June 8, 2008 @ 10:42 pm
I live in a rural area of Pa.and the sound of the cicadas is so loud. We can’t even enjoy sitting out on our porch swing.
There is trees covered in shells and cicadas. I can’t remember seeing or hearing them this much.
And I’ve lived here for 35 years.
Message by Yvonne — June 8, 2008 @ 7:37 am
I failed to mention that we are just outside of Asheville, North Carolina. Does anyone know approximately when we can expect to see the cicadas exit ?
Message by Jeff — June 5, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
My wife and I worked very hard planting a large and wonderful variety of trees on our two acre property over the last three years. We had moved here from Florida, and knew nothing about the 17 year hoard of cicadas. We feel sad and powerless watching the destruction being wrought to many of the beautiful trees. Unfortunately, the Japanese beetles will arrive soon with their leaf eating rampage. Combined with the extremely hot weather, the trees will be under terrible strain.
Message by Jeff — June 5, 2008 @ 7:19 pm
Here in Harrodsburg Kentucky, they are thick…..for a Californian that just moved here last year….this is more than I can handle…..the incessant buzzzing sound is driving me crazy & there is no way to escape it. They are swarming around my house…not just on the trees. I own 10 acres with woods, which is probably why it’s so bad…..I have never seen anything so horrible yet fascinating in my life
Message by Deborah A Klinkner — June 5, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
Hey i want to learn more about the Tibicen chloromera - swamp cicada can any help me find more info on them all i can find is pics! slowjamcdub@yahoo.com
Message by Chris — June 1, 2008 @ 6:38 am
I was wondering if anyone could tell me if the Cicadas have come out in the Louisville area yet?
Message by Karla — May 27, 2008 @ 7:15 am
Brood 14 running strong right up against the Smokies. Numbers diminish signifacantly as you move away from the mountains
Message by Dan — May 26, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
East Tennessee is in full swing for about 9 days now. Noise is less than previous brood 14.
Message by Dan — May 26, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
Cicadas are showing up here in Indian Hill, Ohio. Found them on the apple tree and the maples out front. We haven’t seen enough to be a nuisance yet, but there were many 2 years ago, whatever brood that was (not a fan of the little critters, but the homeschooled kid loves them!)
Message by Trenton — May 26, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
FAIRVIEW NC MANY MANY
Message by DANE — May 20, 2008 @ 8:14 am
They’ve been out here in force for about two weeks. When I woke up the other morning, I thought a tornado alarm was sounding…the woods behind our house were so loud. At first they’re interesting, but when you sweep about a hundred a day from your back deck, they become pretty gross. If I understand correctly, they’ll be around till about July. Right?
Message by Doug Mills — May 19, 2008 @ 11:38 am
Phoebe is back!
Message by Dan — May 14, 2008 @ 10:17 am
I heard several more cicadas yesterday evening around 6:30 PM in Sacramento, CA. They were all on one city block. I guess our annual cicadas emerge at the same time as the 17-year ones in the eastern half of the country.
Message by Phoebe — May 14, 2008 @ 5:00 am
I believe I heard our first Northern California annual cicada of the season on Sunday, May 11 in Sacramento. It sounded like one of our usual Okanagana types. I have only heard one so far, but I expect the rest to start emerging in the next 2 weeks.
Message by Phoebe — May 13, 2008 @ 3:55 am
A note from a cicada fan in Sydney in response to the previous 3 Aussie cicada comments. The large “black guys” from New England may be ‘cherrynoses’ (Macrotristria angularis) as these don’t emerge every year, but they are slightly smaller than double drummers (which is our largest). I remember my childhood cicada hunts and they impressed me as “larger than life” at younger ages! I have also been collecting in the NEng region over the past 10 years and haven’t found anything larger. BUT cicadaphiles have recently found new (large) species of double drummers (Thopha saccata) and cherrynoses so in this vast land, we must always be open to new possibilities for species. We had massive emergences of double drummers in coastal NSW in Nov 2006/7. The Blue Mtns west of Sydney has around 15 endemic cicada species, most small to medium, with huge numbers of “Masked Devils” (green grocer variants) emerging in October 2007 from Woodford to Blackheath- fantastic numbers.
Jodi posted some great shots of Thopha colorata on cicadamania.
Season is pretty well finished in Sydney due to unseasonally heavy Feb rains- only the usual few lonely black prince males still trying to call up a female until around Easter.
Good luck in the USA with the periodicals from May 23.
Message by david — March 13, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
Hello fellow cicada lovers. Just posting this to “get the word out there” to a receptive audience.
When I was a kid I caught cicadas every summer like any other kid. In Sydney, Australia, it was mostly greengrocers, the occassional yellow monday and black prince.
But when I went on holidays to the New England area of New South Wales, one year I found MEGA cicadas - these guys were at half the size again of those I caught back home.
I didn’t think much of it except “how awesome!” and “I wish the kids in the street back home could see me with these guys!” until I came across a magazine article which illustrated the largest of many of Australia’s insect specimens. It listed the double drummer and I thought - oh, that’s a mistake; they’ve obviously forgotten about the ones I found as a kid.
Later, I came across a similar poster, this time at the Australian Museum and I thought - hang on a minute - perhaps they don’t *know* about the big ones I caught as a kid.
So I asked, and they walked me into the exhibit, pointed at a cicada and said “there - that’s as big as they get”.
I said “No. The ones I caught were half that size again.”
They said if I ever found them again to bring one back.
So that’s where it’s at. I’ve looked once since (because I rarely visit the area anymore, let alone at the right time of year) and let a few locals know to post me some if they turn up again.
Now - to the cicada fanatics - what are the odds this is an annual? Does Australia have “cyclic” cicadas (ie, don’t emerge every year)? How long would an emergence likely be?
I think I know the answer to all three questions seeing as I’m talking about a species no-one else knows about.
Oh, and from memory, they were mostly black with a few green ones. This tidbit alone might suggest I recall it all incorrectly - unless you can tell me there *are* species which emerge in two or more colour forms. (Is the yellow monday the same as the greengrocer?)
Anyway, that’s that. The trees, road and paddocks are all still there, so here’s hoping.
Cheers,
Chris.
Message by youcantryreachingme — January 2, 2008 @ 1:17 am
I also live in an area of Australia where cicadas are hatching in droves. We’ve pulled dozens of casings off of the house alone, and today - so far- nearly a dozen have hatched. I’m rescuing lots off of my truck tyres. We have a rare type here, called the Orange Drummer. I’ve posted some pics on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelcat/2067077737/in/photostream/
Message by Jodi C. — November 26, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
Hi, I live in cicada heaven, which is in the Blue Mountains,west of Sydent in NSW Australia. Cicadas are found of all types and species. Any day in summer you can hear a chorus of cicadas which have been measured at over 150 decibels. You can literally walk up to any tree and pick them up off the trunk! Birds just fly up and eat them in front of you, but there are still cicada nymphs emerging in bright daylight (normally this only happens at night!) I think it has something to do with the unseasonally wet and cold weather we have been experiencing this summer. But anyway, I have loads of pics if you want to contact me: kevin@padrepio.org.au
Blessings!
Message by Fr Kevin Lee — November 15, 2007 @ 11:10 pm
It’s October. It has reached 92 degrees today (Aurora, Illinois) and I heard many, many cicadas.
A few days ago I also heard one in Naperville, Illinois.
I was actually surprised. But, I would understand since it is awfully warm out.
Message by Daniela Barrios — October 7, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
A photo of a Masked Devil cicada that flew into my living room last night (in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales):
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=341705&l=b46a1&id=715264364
A shell I found a week ago:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=326996&l=2efbd&id=715264364
Cheers!
Message by Andrew Sweeney — October 3, 2007 @ 10:25 pm
Dan posted some of my videos of a singing cicada in Sacramento, CA recently. I also took still pictures of the cicada while shooting the video. Here are the links to the still shots:
http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s66/hardmf1/misc/?action=view¤t=cicada6originalsizepic.jpg
http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s66/hardmf1/misc/?action=view¤t=cicada2rightside.jpg
http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s66/hardmf1/misc/?action=view¤t=cicada5originalsizepic.jpg
http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s66/hardmf1/misc/?action=view¤t=cicada1originalsizepic.jpg
All I know is that it is some species of Okanagana.
Message by Phoebe — September 14, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
I am not in anyway an expert ha ha , when it comes to cicatas , but from the pictures I have looked up I beleave I have found a common every year cicata its still emerging frome his exoskeliton ,I found him lieing on the ground on a sidewalk I knew he had fallin off of his resting spot and I knew if i left him their hed get step on or torchered by a human or something els so I plased him om my balcony and im worried he isnt emerging like normal , he is half way out and just stoped , I guess what Im trying to find out is how long would it normaly take the tibian cicada to leave the exoskelito ? hours , days ? or is it suposed to take a wile ,,, he obviously isnt in mutch ah hurry to go …. some one please help me understand this prosses better id be most gratfull to learn
Message by edith — August 31, 2007 @ 12:05 am
I live just outside Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and recently found a beetle that I’ve never seen in this area - someone suggested it might be a cicada. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to snap a picture, but haven’t seen any on your site that look like this. Do cicadas live in this area, and if so, would they feed from a Mountain Ash tree? My mountain ash trees seem to have some disease or pest they’ve never had before, and these bugs are also new.
Message by Michelle — August 28, 2007 @ 1:46 pm
I live in Sacramento, CA. I have seen cicadas in trees several times in the past week, and I hear them all over the place. I took a few videos of them. You can see the best one here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey5nMtPBjNs
I have several other videos, but YouTube’s search function hasn’t been working properly since July 25. When you search by “Date Added”, hardly any newer videos show up, including all my latest cicada sightings.
I also took a still picture of the cicada featured in my video link: http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s66/hardmf1/misc/?action=view¤t=cicadainSacramentoCA7-25-07.jpg
Message by Phoebe — July 30, 2007 @ 3:21 pm
Heard a strange noise. looked on the front screen. Found an incredibly strange insect I had never seen before. Finally figured out it was a cicada. We are in Northeast PA, and I think these are the 17-year deals. Crazy.
Message by Eric — July 25, 2007 @ 7:14 pm
Hi guys,
I’m in Albuquerque for a conference, and last night around 8:30 heard what sounded like cicadas in a tree…where I grew up (Delaware) cicadas only call on hot afternoons. Was I really hearing cicadas? Or some other critter?
Thanks…
Message by Melissa — July 20, 2007 @ 5:51 am
Hi Lindsey,
Those sound rather neat. If you can get a picture, post on this website and that could help identification
Message by david — July 14, 2007 @ 4:09 pm
We live in Krum, Texas (near the Dallas/Fort Worth area) and for the past two years I have noticed some very tiny cicadas which come up from under our shrubs to sit on the porch screens. They are a mottled grey camouflage color, and measure only about 3/4 inch! They can almost be mistaken for horseflies. They do “buzz” like other cicadas if startled off the porch screen, but I don’t know what their particular song is like. I would like to know what they are, if anyone can tell me.
Message by Lindsey Williams — July 14, 2007 @ 9:40 am
Hello all,
It has become very warm here in New York. For some reason the Tibicens are taking a while to come up. Possibly the unusually cool days may have delayed the emergence. I heard a Tibicen chloromera finally sing this AM. Caught an emerging nymph the night before, but none last night. The teneral adult is living amongst oak branches I have provided it and I am waiting for it to mature. Interested in seeing how long one could be kept in captivity (my record was 12 days for a periodical species) and if they would sing as well. (Had a septendecim that sang, the cassini did not). No T.lyricen heard as of yet. If anyone knows of any other species that inhabit the NY area let me know (Queens County and Long Island)
Message by Elias — July 10, 2007 @ 7:49 am
Hello Dan,
Just recently purchased 25 cicadas rom Illinois. Unfortunatley due to the intervening Holiday (7/4), all dies except one. She is a septendecim female and still lives to today! I never knew periodicals could be found in July!! Here in Nassau county yesterday I heard a Tibicen Canicularis dsing at dusk and this morning in QUeens a Tibicen chlomera sang as well. Found an emerging nymph yesterday and placed him with the Magicada. Never thought I would see these two species side by side!!! Its been a great year for cicadas. Now its time for the Tibicens to take over.
Message by Elias — July 9, 2007 @ 8:38 am
Amanda: if it’s a Tibicen cicada, then it’s perfectly normal. Tibicens emerge every year.
Message by Dan Century — July 3, 2007 @ 7:00 am
Apparantly one cicada is confused. We aren’t supposed to have a brood here within a couple of states this year, yet we found one hanging out with the June Bugs tonight. We are just outside Memphis, TN in North Mississippi. Not sure what’s up with that? TN is supposed to have a brood next year, maybe he came up a little early?
Message by Amanda — July 2, 2007 @ 8:47 pm
Here in south Oak Park, Illinois, we just heard our first Annual Cicada, a Tibicen pruinosa singing about 45 minutes before sunset. Last year we heard our first T. pruinosa on June 27, although for several years before that we did not heard them until early July. We have been feeling seriously deprived of Periodical Cicadas in our neighborhood. We have to drive a few miles west, to the Des Plaines River floodplain, to see them in large numbers. At least we seem to be a bit ahead of the game with the Annual Cicadas!
Eric, Ethan, and Aaron Gyllenhaal
Kid’s Cicada Hunt
Message by Eric Gyllenhaal — June 26, 2007 @ 6:12 pm
have there been cicada sightings in elkhorn Wisconsin? i’ll be there for a week and want to know how to prepare.
Message by Peri — June 16, 2007 @ 7:37 pm
Interesting, I haven’t seen or heard(thank God) the little critters, but my man was driving to Tinley Park and while in traffic had the radio up quite a bit. He heards this high pitched sound, turned the radio off rolled the woindow down and he said it was like an invasion of millions of crickets. I laughed because 2 weeks before that I told him :The Cicadas are coming…” lol
Message by Laurie and Mike — June 15, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
There’s plenty of cicadas in California, but they’re annual cicadas — they type that emerge every year in small numbers.
Message by Dan — June 13, 2007 @ 4:46 pm
I don’t know what to make of it… this week, here in Santa Barbara, CA, I’ve heard that lovely, shrill singing of the cicadas. Not many of them & haven’t seen any, but I can hear them up in some trees. I travelled extensively through the South and lower Great Lakes in the summer of 2004, so I’m more than familiar with that distinctive sound. I wasn’t aware they lived in southern California, especially right on the coast like this… never have heard them before. Fluke of global warming or something?
Message by C. Campbell — June 13, 2007 @ 4:42 pm
Over Memorial Day weekend we were at Railroad Park Campground, near Castle Crags, just south of Dunsmuir, California. We saw dozens of cicadas molting out of their nymph stage. They were mostly on the site marker posts for the campsites, but were also found on camp chairs, picnic tables and bicycle tires! I got a ton of photos of the emergence of the adults and the expansion and drying of the wings. I would gladly forward photos to someone who could identify the variety.
Message by Rusty McMillan — June 11, 2007 @ 5:35 pm
P.S. SORRY, I LIVE IN CRYSTAL LAKE ILLINOIS.
LAURIE STEWART AGAIN!
Message by LAURIE L. STEWART — June 11, 2007 @ 12:52 pm
HELP!!! I’M JUST TRYING TO FIND A MAP SHOWING WHERE THE CICADAS ARE. I WANT SO TO SEE THE MIRACLE OF THEM IN PROGRESS. I MAY NOT BE HERE IN 17 MORE YEARS. I FIND IT QUITE A SPIRITUAL EVENT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH,
LAURIE STEWART
Message by LAURIE L. STEWART — June 11, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
Timberon, NM - After a brief email conversation with someone from this site, and sending him a photo of one of our local cicadas, it has been determined that the cicadas in the mountains of South Centeral New Mexico are Platapedia. Perhaps the ones in Santa Fe are of the same Genus.
Message by Scott M. — June 10, 2007 @ 5:26 pm
I live in the suburbs around chicago and there were so many cicadas on one of my plants that it became smothered… I CAN’T WAIT FOR THESE GROSS BUGS TO GO BYE-BYE!!!!
Message by Plant Luver — June 3, 2007 @ 11:44 am
I live just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico and about a week and a half ago i was taking a walk in the woods and i noticed holes about an inch in diameter all over the place. I then noticed that they were housing some sort of beetle, but i didn’t know what kind. Well about three days ago i went outside and heard the forest alive with that unmistakable cicada song. The trees were crawling with them. I’ve never seen them this far west before and am wondering what kind they are?
Message by Antonio mora — June 3, 2007 @ 11:16 am
I found thousands of cicadas up and down Chickaloon Drive in McHenry, Illinois. Some are up in the trees, under the trees leaves, and more are hatching as I write!! IT was fantastic and the niose was deafening!
Message by Kathryn — May 30, 2007 @ 5:46 pm
I was camping in the Catskill Mountains of NY State (specifcally at Mongaup Pond in Livingston Manor)this Memorial Day weekend and cicada exoskeletons were all around. I heard they were Chicago area and was surprised to find them. We also had balck flies!!
Message by Sonya — May 29, 2007 @ 8:24 am
My name is Kailey. I am 10 years old and live in Indiana. I just went outside in my backyard and counted 244 cicada moltings. And some live ones too.
Message by Kailey — May 24, 2007 @ 8:49 am
Lake Forest, IL….First Cicada sighting Brood XIII at garden-goddess.blogspot.com
Message by Carole Brewer — May 14, 2007 @ 7:18 am
We have an outdoor wedding planned in Lemont on June 16th. If the cicada’s emerge on May 22nd, what are we in for as far as “uninvited guests” to our wedding.
Message by tryingtokeepasenseof humor — May 6, 2007 @ 10:53 am
Hello everyone. Long time, no see… Just wanted to share sometime indirectly cicada related that you may find of interest. I’m sure if anyone is a gamer, then you’re familiar with one of the most popular games currently on sale. Check out the “GEARS OF WAR” for the Xbox 360. You’ll learn of the big “Emergence Day” event within the game’s storyline. The enemy you’ll be fighting are called “Locusts” that actually come from the bowels of the earth! However, you’ll soon discover that these “Locusts” are not the little critters we know and love. Check it out. You may find if amusing like I did. Plus it is also a really fun game!!!
Check out http://www.gearsofwar.com
Message by Les Daniels — January 5, 2007 @ 3:00 pm
I am in Prince Edward Island, Canada, on the 13th of OCTOBER, a 2″ long plus insect that I think must be a Cicada of some kind, dark brown, reasonably active still this am, was on the door, (attracted by the light that I have beside the door), the weather this fall has been unreasonably (
) warm with ~70 degree weather two or three days this week, normally I have Cicadas on the trees and of house only in August, has anyone else seen this or is it a fluke ? I have searched the outside of the house but only the one lonesome charlie.
Message by Tom Purdy — October 14, 2006 @ 5:17 am
I live in Raleigh, NC area, and just spotted my first cicada the night before last which was August 20, 2006. I freaked out when I saw this huge bug on my front porch screen, but after a few seconds realized that it must be a locust or cicada. The markings/colorings on these insects are incredible. I decided to do a little research to be sure and found this website. So, there you are!
Message by P. Sapp — August 22, 2006 @ 4:36 am
my son and i live in crittenden ky. 30 mi. south of cincinnati oh.and have sighted many green and black cicadas.the noise from these are loud and the noise has been around for about 2 to 3 weeks.can anyone tell us exactly what species they are, how often these come out and when they will disappear? we are very interested. sincerely,s. goldsworth
Message by s.goldsworth — August 21, 2006 @ 1:50 pm
Arghhhh! That noise! Here I take a week off from work in the middle of August to spend with my children, and every evening, I hear the deafening sound of the cicada! I thought we weren’t due for another emergency for another ten years or so. I live in Athens, Ohio, where the brood hatched in 1999 during my daughter’s outdoor birthday party (what a memory for her… kids screeming as the fly overhead , getting caught in their hair! What fun!) so we were not expecting the hissing of summer lawns for another decade. What gives?
Message by Kirk G — August 18, 2006 @ 7:44 am
I am having trouble identifying this cicada I caught. I was hoping someone could identify it for me? Here are the pictures.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/NobdyYouKnoNEway/Bugs/P1010028-1.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/NobdyYouKnoNEway/Bugs/P1010030.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/NobdyYouKnoNEway/Bugs/P1010025.jpg
If you can, email or IM what you think it is to me.
Email: leogeckogirl@gmail.com
AIM: Reha Chan
Message by Reha — August 17, 2006 @ 2:33 am
I live in Connecticut and came across a dead cicada last week. Not knowing what it was I took some pictures and posted them in my blog. Falanya from Anchorage clued me in as to what it was. Now I just don’t know what type of cicada it is - just curious.
Check out the photots at http://theczarspage.blogspot.com/
BTW, Very nice web site!
Gerry
Message by Gerry michaud — August 14, 2006 @ 4:21 pm
2 cicadas spotted in Columbus, GA. First one spotted on August 1st, the second sighting was August 14 this morning.
Message by johnny lumpkin — August 14, 2006 @ 1:17 pm
I have spotted a Cicada twice in the last week at my front door. It’s apparently attracted to the yellow bug light I purchased to deter all insects. When I first saw it I was shocked at how big they are! I didn’t know what it was at first until I started researching them this morning. I saw it for the first time last week, but saw it again this morning as I was leaving for work. It was right on my wall under my porch light. It makes such a loud sound! it looks just like the apache cicada that you have pictured on the home page. I thought that their were no species due to surface in 2006?
Message by johnny lumpkin — August 14, 2006 @ 1:13 pm
Cicadas starting emerging around my yard about June 20th this year. I have seen more than a dozen nymph exoskeletons all over the yard: on the foundation of my house, on the fence, under daylily, squash and bergamot leaves, and even two on the tire of my car. I got photos of two adults and I think they are genus Tibicen. Now yesterday and today, the noise has been intense up in the trees!
Message by Jenn — July 29, 2006 @ 7:27 pm
Two cicadas sighted in Toronto.
Message by SSK — July 27, 2006 @ 3:12 pm
Greetings,
After an absence of over 50 years, the Giant Cicada (Quesada gigas) is back (with a vengeance) across Central Texas from San Antonio to Austin…
_______________________________
Giant Cicada / Chicharra Grande
http://texasento.net/Cicada.htm
Message by Mike Quinn — July 21, 2006 @ 1:23 pm
I just wanted to report that I finally heard my first Tibicen of
the season late this afternoon. It was a T.chloromera. I have yet to
find any live nymphs or exuviae though. I will update once I find any.
Roy
Message by Roy Troutman — July 1, 2006 @ 9:13 pm
Speaking of Disney, I work at Disneyland, and our cicadas have just made a very loud apperance. Does anyone know what type they are? The last few days have been the warmest in quite a while…around 80. Thank you!
Message by Elizabeth Madsen — April 20, 2006 @ 1:43 am
Cicadas are emerging “down under” in Australia. Small species have been appearing for around a month, but the first emergence of the large “Green grocers” (Cyclochila australasiae) occurred around Sydney on October 14.
Message by David Emery — October 23, 2005 @ 5:02 am
To Wes Phillips (Aug 21). Have been trying to contact you from Australia on your old email address(2003) about cicadas, but messages bounce back. Have you changed it, please?
Message by david — August 30, 2005 @ 3:25 pm
Well make that two Tibicens now in Franconia, Virginia. Found one in my cellar well. Can’t wait until the next “17 year” cicada brood appears in our area.
Message by Scott Dwinelle — August 29, 2005 @ 6:27 pm
I live in Los Angeles California. I am not sure what I saw but it looked like the cicada insect. I saw two yesterday. They caught my eye because I have never seen any insect like this in LA. It looked very similar to the cicada pictures posted in this web site; the differences are these were forest green and the body was slightly thinner. Has anyone reported seeing any in California? Next one I see I will take a picture. I do know we have had record rain fall for this year and there are a lot more spiders because of it.
Message by Rick Rivera — August 27, 2005 @ 9:27 am
Saw my first Tibicen of the season the other day here in Franconia, Virginia. We really don’t see these to often. Usually one or two a year. Now Magicicada we get by the thousands!
Message by Scott Dwinelle — August 23, 2005 @ 2:20 pm
i’ve a photo of a huge cicada…..cant’ find any other to compair to….ugh………can u help?
Message by Carla — August 23, 2005 @ 8:32 am
I have never seen as many Cicada’s as we have had this year. Last year the buzz (pardon the pun!) was all about the Brood X, This year by far has been ALOT Worse. I am finding 10-20 shells of the molted Cicada’s every couple weeks. I have had at least 3 “Waves” of Molted and now singing Cicada’s. The Holes are starting to become Very apparent of yet another hatching and evolving. A couple weeks ago the noise was almost maddening. Just unbelieveable.
Message by Pati — August 23, 2005 @ 7:42 am
This has been a great summer for cicadas in the Texas Panhandle area. My granddaughter Ashley and I made a trip down near Lubbock and found some of the smallest cicadas in this country. We found not only Pacarina puella, but also Beameria venosa. Beameria venosa is the smaller of these and to my surprise was a two-tone green color. We also collected numerous Cicadetta kansa near Fritch. Tibicen superba appears to still be the most common large cicada and we caught several of them this summer as well. Interestingly enough, I also caught some Microstylum morosum - the Giant Robber Fly which is a predator on cicadas. This is the largest fly in the united states, and some of the specimens we caught were an inch and a half long.
Wes Phillips
Message by Wes Phillips — August 21, 2005 @ 4:31 pm
I thought is was some nuclear being. We don’t have insects that big in Eugene, OR. Let alone plated ones with huge tubular needles coming from their mouth. I could hear it from the back of our property. I placed it in a jar until someone suggested it may be a cicada. My children set it on the patio table and watched it for over an hour. We were able to see it “sing” but you couldn’t really tell the abdomen was even moving. What a pleasure
Message by Kristin — August 17, 2005 @ 4:39 pm
I hear them continuously throughout the daylight hours here in the far northwest of Illinois. I’m about 45 minutes from the Wisconsin border. I was just wondering if anyone knew when they will quiet down and their “song” will end. It has driven me almost to the point of insanity!
Message by Sara — August 17, 2005 @ 10:48 am
Hi, I just saw this website, because I was trying to do some research on Cicada holes. We recently moved to Shamong, NJ (dec of 2004), and
about a month ago, I noticed HUNDREDS of little holes in our yard. I mean literally TONS of them. I didn’t know what they were. We live in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, and I had seen lots of shells of cicadas this Spring, 2005. Then about 3 weeks ago, we saw a cicada crawling across our sidewalk to the driveway. We live in DENSE FOREST area. My front yard is a forest, and so is my backyard. I had listened to some Cicada sounds, on the internet, and then realized “THIS IS THE SOUND that I have been hearing for the past few weeks.
All I can tell you is that we have HUNDREDS of HOLES - fresh holes, that I didn’t see earlier in early Spring. I am now seeing brittle Cicada shells all over the place and especially in our front yard.
So, I assume that they have made MY HOME, their home - which is cool. My hubby took pics of the one that was crawling across the sidewalk. It was late at night, however. Is that when they come out???
Email me, if you wish, and I will send you pics of the holes, and of the Cicada we saw, AND some other pics of the shells that are all over the place.
Jolly Alaniz
Message by Joleen Alaniz — August 16, 2005 @ 6:06 am
Caught a live Tibician in southeast Indiana (Aurora) this morning on our front porch
Message by Eric — August 14, 2005 @ 7:45 am
August 13,2004
Southeastern Mass I found a Tibicen variety of Cicada. It was located on the side of my garage near large catalpa tree The first time I have seen a live cicada and I have lived in area for my entire life. Found while looking for food for pet Praying Mantis. I do believe she will like this special treat.
Message by Chris — August 13, 2005 @ 8:33 pm
my 12 yr. old daughter found a cicada outside in our front yard at 10:oo tonight the 13th of aug., 2005 in grandbay, alabama. we looked at it for a while trying to figure out what it was, and i remembered my dad telling me it was a cicada when i was about 12 yrs. old myself. we released it.
Message by joey heflin — August 13, 2005 @ 8:03 pm
Here in Detroit, we hear them every summer. It’s just not summer without them. I’ve found several moltings on the trees near my home, the garage, and even on the side of my home. My daughter actually scared the crap (to put it polite) out of me when she brought a empty shell in the house. The sparrows & wrens in the area, must love them. I’ve seen some amazing chases this year. A few chases were near fatal for the birds. Since the birds where concentating on the cicadas and not watching traffic they were flying into. Watching a bird chase a cicada is AMAZING.
I have to admit these are some ugly bugs, but I love their music.
Message by kelly — August 7, 2005 @ 7:01 pm
When we were younger, about 10 or so, my brother and would get up early in the morning, ride our bikes around the Neighborhood looking for cicadas. That seems to be the best time to catch them drying their wings on the trees. We had many pets that summer!
Message by amanda — August 5, 2005 @ 11:05 am
I hear them every summer in the trees here in southern wisconsin!
Message by amanda — August 5, 2005 @ 11:01 am
The mystery in San Antonio has been solved. Edward G. Riley, Associate Curator in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M, identified the species we collected as Quesada giga. He believes this species to be the largest cicada in North America and it ranges from south Texas to South America. Their call is described as “metallic”. I can say first hand that that description is accurate, and they are certainly the largest cicada I’ve ever seen. Very interesting indeed.
Message by Greg — August 2, 2005 @ 11:49 am
I caught my first cicada pet ever this summer of 2005. I found him in our pool and he was still alive. I put him in a container for 2 days and I named him Bob. About 1 week later I caught a girl cicada being attacked by a pray mantis. I nammed her betty.
Message by Katy Czarnecki — August 2, 2005 @ 7:59 am
I caught a tibican in Aberdeen MD. I found a dead one infront of my apartment the other day. we have a ton of the model T cicadas in my edgewood MD apartment complex. last year there were none but the magicicadas were close by it sounded like an alien spaceship. though I ve never heard an alien spacecraft before LOL
Message by Vince Matson — August 1, 2005 @ 6:25 pm
I’m 45-years-old and although long aware of cicadas I’ve never experienced them first-hand. Today, July 31, 2005 that all changed. Here now the details: At approximately 10:45 AM EDT in Woodcliff Lake, NJ my wife and I were parked in the Mack-Cali building parking lot. The sunroof to my car was open and I heard a very unusual and loud sound that appeared to be coming from a tree that we were parked under. Getting out of the car to further investigate I was first struck by how loud the sound was. At first I imagined it was some strange avian call and as I tried to spot this creature hidden in the dense foliage the sound would cycle in and out. Loud, then very loud, almost frantic, then moderating. This area of the parking lot was populated by a species of tree I’m not familiar with, but it had fruit very much like large green cherries. Further exploring the trees I finally spotted a cicada that I managed to close within about 3′ of before it found me too close for comfort and flew away. Candidly, these are not attractive insects *cough*, but the decibel level a solitary insect is able to reach is truly astounding. The buzz of this entire brood of insects was like nothing I’ve ever heard before although if you’ve ever attended an F1 automobile race, the sensation is not terribly dissimilar. Wow! Thanks for this site and for wading through this report.
Message by John Smyth — July 31, 2005 @ 6:46 pm
For the first time in my life I was able to watch and photograph numerous cicada nmphs coming out of their exoskeletons and gradually gaining four, straight, green wings. They were on tree trunks and the long thorns of honey locust trees in my front yard in rural northwest Oklahoma. Dan from Cicadamania identified their species as “Tibicin” annual cicadas.
Message by Mary — July 28, 2005 @ 10:02 am
My 8 year old son found a cicada this afternoon! After visiting your site and listening to a few of the songs, we think it is a Tibicen
Message by Sarah — July 27, 2005 @ 6:12 pm
There’s been an emergence of an interesting species here in San Antonio, TX. It appears to be a Tibicen species of which several are common to this area. What sets this one apart is its shrill call. It’s a high pitched buzz or whine unlike the Tibicen chatter we’re used to in this area. I collected a few specimens with an entomologist this morning to determine the species and will follow up with a post when we key it out. If anyone else may be able to shed some light on this particularly shrill calling cicada please post up or contact me at ghammer@tamu.edu.
Message by Greg — July 26, 2005 @ 12:09 pm
I keep hearing Cicada’s in my area, not sure what kind it is, although I do know it’s of a tibicen type (yeah I’m not all that scientific) They are the most interesting insects I have come across…trying to learn more and I am ALWAYS looking to see them yet I can’t. We have many oaks and maple tree’s in our area and the buzzing sounds like there’s millions of them, yet I know that’s not the case. I love these bugs
Message by Donna G — July 20, 2005 @ 2:13 pm
Concord,North Carolina - this morning found a dogday cicada. it was scary and amazing at the same time because i have never saw anything like this in my life before.
it died as it was coming out of its skeleton. it was the weirdest thing i ever saw.
Message by lana B — July 12, 2005 @ 11:42 am
Central Illinois - not sure what species, didn’t even know what it was…after reviewing the web site, and waking my neighbor to see it, confirmed cicada wandering on the curb.
Message by momma w — July 11, 2005 @ 6:37 am
Found 7 molting T. lyricen specimens in one of my favorite cicada walking spots on July 7th. As of today July 10th still not a peep out of them. I’m in Massachusetts.
Message by Gerry — July 10, 2005 @ 4:16 pm
I heard about 1 or 2 Tibicen chloromera singing this morning around my house.
Message by Matt — July 8, 2005 @ 6:51 am
Found my first live specimens of Tibicen lyricen here in Massachusetts on the 4th of July. They are not calling in the trees yet as of today (July 6th) but I did hear the call of a Tibicen canicularis in my yard on the 5th but I haven’t found any live specimens.
Gerry
Message by Gerry — July 6, 2005 @ 9:37 pm
Found 3 shells and heard over 10 cicadas singing yesterday. I also saw one fly past us.
Message by Matt — July 5, 2005 @ 2:50 pm
heard another!
Message by Matt — July 2, 2005 @ 5:22 pm
I heard a tibicen linnei in Cincinnati this evening.
Message by Matt — July 1, 2005 @ 8:49 pm
I finally heard my first tibicen last friday evening(June 26th) in southwest ohio. It was a T. linnei. I haven’t found any live nymphs or skins yet but am still looking. More updates to come.
Message by Roy Troutman — June 26, 2005 @ 3:04 pm
Platypedia putmani, one of the western clicking cicada has emerged in good numbers in the foothills immediately west of Fort Collins, Colorado. More than usual are being heard on the west side of town. There is some debate, whether they are reproducing in town or migrating from pine and brushlands west of town. I’m begining to believe they have started reproducing within town.
Message by Tim McNary — June 24, 2005 @ 7:57 am
Subject: 2005 cicada
While vacationing at disney guess what I heard. My first cicada of 2005.
(Hiero)
I heard them on 5/7/05 11:00 am. at Magic Kingdom also on 5/8 at Animal Kingdom, and 5/9 at Epcot. I did not hear any at MGM on 5/9. All days were mostly sunny with temps in the upper 80’s.
I am going to a meeting at Baltimore on may 18th. After the meeting im going to the same place I went last year in Annapolis were there was at least a couple 1000 Periodical Cicadas their in hopes of seeing and takeing home some stragglers. Bill
Message by Bill Mister — June 2, 2005 @ 9:24 am