First, of all, over on the Facebook page we shared Annette DeGiovine’s 4th of July Magicicada image:
“Oh, I don’t have a Facebook”. I don’t know what to tell you. Send your parents to Facebook and have them download the photo for you. I am not in love with the site either, but it allows me to stay in touch with cicada fans and share the cicada message. There is also the Facebook Cicada Science and Discussion Group — a group I created and can moderate, but Facebook as banned me from posting to.
Check out my Cicada Fireworks posts from previous years. Fireworks makers often name fireworks after cicadas because they both “fly” and “SCREAMMMM”.
Lastly, now that we’re in July, it is time for Summer Cicadas in the U.S.A! Any Magicicada stragglers are gone, and Platypedia (the fisherman’s friend) and tiny Cicadettana have peaked. It’s time for the big Megatibicen and Neotibicen species to take the stage. Here’s a list of the most-common cicadas in the U.S.A. with photos and sounds for easy identification.