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2023 Magicicada straggler update

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Post date May 27, 2023
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Updated for June 7th!

Here’s a map of 2023 Magicicada straggler sightings from 2023 Magicicada stragglers iNaturalist project and the Cicada Safari app. Dr. Gene Kritsky compiled the map.

Kritsky map June 7

It looks like there are plenty of stragglers from these broods:

Brood XIX, in the south that are 1 year early.
Brood XIII in the Chicago area that are 1 year early.
Brood XIV in the Cape Cod area that is 2 years early.
Brood X, which are 2 years late.
Brood VIII, which is 4 years late.

Learn about Magicicada stragglers.

Brood X Toys and Amusements

Brood X Frisbee

Here’s my latest eBay find: a Brood X Magicicada septendecim disc golf frisbee. Model GStar Wraith.

Brood X Frisbee

This isn’t the first cicada frisbee I’ve seen. Here’s one from Brood VIII.

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Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 6

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Post date July 7, 2021
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Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 6. 2021.

Teneral Magicicada:

Teneral Magicicada:

Magicicada septendecim that failed to completely exit its exuvia before its body hardened:
Magicicada Jim Occi

Magicicada septendecim that failed to completely exit its exuvia before its body hardened:
Magicicada Jim Occi

A pair of Magicicada septendecim:
A pair of Magicicada Jim Occi

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Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 5

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Post date July 7, 2021
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Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 5. 2021.

Molting Magicicada:

Teneral Magicicada:

Teneral Magicicada:

Teneral Magicicada expanding wings:

Adult Magicicada with crumpled wings:

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Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 4

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Post date July 7, 2021
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Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 4. 2021.

A Rutgers cap in Princeton (one day Rutgers needs to get that cannon back).

Magicicada septendecim with exposed tymbal:

A Magicicada with its abdomen wrecked by Massospora fungus.
Magicicada wrecked by Massospora

Magicicada exit holes:
Magicicada holes by Jim Occi

A pair of Magicicada septendecim:

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Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 3

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Post date July 7, 2021
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Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 3. 2021.

Magicicada septendecim on finger:
Perched on finger

Teneral, newly molted Magicicada:
Teneral Magicicada

Magicicada septendecim perched on a plant stalk:
Magicicada on plant Jim Occi

A mass of Magicicada skins:
A mass of exuvia by Jim Occi

Magicicada septendecim on a leaf:
Magicicada on leaf

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Tags M. septendecim

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Magicicada cassinii photos from Brood X

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Post date July 3, 2021
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Here are some Magicicada cassinii photos from Brood X, 2021, Flemmington, New Jersey.

Magicicada cassinii ovipositing
Magicicada cassini ovipositing

M. cassinii taking a drink:
Taking a Drink Cassini

Tags M. cassini, M. cassinii

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Brood X Magicicada Photos from Princeton

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Post date July 3, 2021
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These are a set of Brood X Magicicada photos from Princeton, nearby a Burger King, an area with a large population of Magicicada septendecula. Taken in 2021 by Dan Mozgai.

Left to right: Magicicada cassini, Magicicada septendecula, Magicicada septendecim:

Magicicada septendecim with a black wing margin:

Magicicada septendecim with a black wing margin:

A pair of Magicicada septedecim:

Magicicada septendecim:

Magicicada septendecim:

Tags M. cassini, M. septendecim, M. septendecula

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Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi, set 2

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Post date July 3, 2021
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Here’s the second set of Brood X Magicicada septendecim photos by Jim Occi. The photos were taken in New Jersey in 2021.

Magicicada septendecim:
Magicicada photo by Jim Occi

Magicicada septendecim:
Magicicada septendecim: by Jim Occi

Magicicada septendecim:
Magicicada septendecim: by Jim Occi

Magicicada septendecim:
Magicicada septendecim: by Jim Occi

More photos by Jim:

Tags M. septendecim

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Brood X Magicicada Photos by Jim Occi

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Post date July 3, 2021
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Jim Occi has contributed photos to Cicada Mania since the 2004 Brood X emergence.

Here are 5 photos from the recent Brood X emergence in New Jersey:

Brood X Magicicada Photo by Jim Occi

Brood X Magicicada Photo by Jim Occi

Brood X Magicicada Photo by Jim Occi

Brood X Magicicada Photo by Jim Occi

Brood X Magicicada Photo by Jim Occi

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