Roy Troutman sent us photos of this mysterious cicada-shaped object. We don’t know what it is, but it looks cool.
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Wings spread:
March 1, 2020
February 28, 2020
Cicada Skin Lamps by Gaye Williams
Cicada Skin (exuvia, molts, “shells”) Lamps by Gaye Williams.
December 18, 2016
Cicada Christmas Lights 2016🎅🏼
I’ve made Christmas lights, in the past, from plastic cicada whistles from Australia.
This year I tried something new and used real cicada exuvia (skins/shells) and LED “fairie lights”, which seem to run cool enough that they won’t be a hazard to the fragile skins. They look pretty. I’m still in the testing phase, but the results so far look promising.
December 24, 2015
Cicada Christmas Lights 🎅🏼
I made cicada Christmas lights using some LED USB Christmas lights, and some plastic cicada whistles from Australia. The song of cicadas heralds the Christmas season in many countries in the southern hemisphere like Australia.
CicadaMania Cicada Christmas Lights from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
Here’s the whistles:
Bonus Christmas Cicada stuff:
There is a cicada nicknamed the Kobonga Christmas Clanger in Australia (thx David Marshall and Kathy Hill ):
How about a cicada Christmas Wreath? This wreath was made by Jenny Pate back in 2004.
Or a Cicada Christmas Card from Sam Orr:
An illustration I made a few years ago:
Christmas Cards:
Christmas ornaments made with cicada skins?
April 24, 2013
Cicada Princess Movie completed
Update:
I received my Cicada Princess clay cicada that was an actual actor/actress in the movie:
And here’s the URL to the movie: www.cicadaprincess.com
Here’s some news for cicada fanatics: the movie Cicada Princess has officially wrapped post production and was and successfully submitted it for consideration to the Sundance Film Festival. Read more about it. Congratulations to film maker Mauricio Baiocchi.
The Cicada Princess is a stop-motion animated movie featuring anthropomorphic cicadas. It was funded via Kickstarter contributions. Visit the Cicada Princess website. Here at Cicada Mania, we’re interested in both real and fictional cicadas.
