Last year around this time I appeared on the Anderson Cooper Show on CNN.
Be warned: I look how a dude who runs a cicada website should look like: 40 pounds overweight and a little scraggly.
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Flickr for Cicada Pictures: Update
Happy Monkey has a nice collection of Brood X photos. Thanks to Flying Fur for the link.
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Cicada Fossils, part 2
From article in The Journal News:
“We found cicada fossils,” says Norell, who also discovered evidence of ginko trees on his expeditions to China.
Hopefully a few straggler Magicicadas will show up in Princeton this year.
Here’s a selection of links from last years emergence:
- Cicada photos from Julie Angarone.
- A video of cicadas in Princeton.
- Jim Occi’s cicada photos.
- Cicada song:
- Bugging the bugs: Students collect data on cicadas
- Campus a hospitable habitat for cicadas
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The Cicadas of Winter
Here’s a review for a Japanese Anime titled Human Crossing: the Cicadas of Winter. From the review, it doesn’t seem to have much to do with cicadas, but I’m posting the link anyway.
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A Chinese idiom
From Paul Frank’s Language Jottings:
The cicada knows nothing of snow. Said of someone who’s ignorant or inexperienced. There’s also the word huigu, platypleura kaempferi, a kind of bright-colored cicada, and the saying huigu bu zhi chun qiu, the cicada is ignorant of spring or autumn, i.e., limited in experience or vision.
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Cicada Soup
Deep End Dining has a post about cicada soup, including a picture of a big steaming bowl of them.
Here’s a story about oolong tea:
This type of tea, sometimes called “Oriental Beauty Tea” uses green leaf cicadas to suck on the plants before the leaves are harvested and fermented. Not only do the leaves have quite a variety of colors, but the taste of the tea is unique with its fruit and honey flavor.
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Amusing Australian cicada names
Got to love those Australian cicada names: Green Grocer, Black Prince, Yellow Monday, Chocolate Soldier, Masked Devil, Blue Moon, Double Drummer, Floury Baker, Cherrynose, Whiskey Drinker, Redeye, Bladder Cicada, Hairy Cicada, Golden Emperor, Eastern Sandgrinder, Brown Bunyip…
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More Brood X Cicada Articles
Reminiscing about the Brood X emergence of 2004:
Princeton: Bugging the bugs: Students collect data on cicadas.
During the next few weeks — as these “Brood X” cicadas emerge from 17 years of subterranean growth and play out their brief but noisy above-ground mating ritual — Princeton students will investigate a range of questions about how the insects behave and interact with the environment.
Golf: Muirfield the summer home this year for cicadas. Cicadas disrupting pro golfers. (thx b1nge).
“I thought we had some big bugs in Africa, but these things …” Ernie Els said.
Golf: A New York Times article about how the cicadas are making life miserable for pro golfers. Awwww. (thx AJay).
Usually, the biggest problem during the week of the Memorial Tournament is rain. This year, the biggest problem could be insects.