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Cicada Killer Wasps Elias Bonaros Neotibicen Photos & Illustrations

Cicada Killer Wasp photos by Elias Bonaros

Here are two Cicada Killer Wasp photos by Elias Bonaros. The Cicada Killer Wasp has captured a Neotibicen tibicen tibicen cicada. These photos are from 2009.

Yes, Elias is holding the wasp and cicada on has hand!

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Cicada Killer Wasp and Neotibicen tibicen:
Cicada Killer Wasp and Neotibicen tibicen

Cicada Killer Wasp and Neotibicen tibicen:
Cicada Killer Wasp and Neotibicen tibicen

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Brood X Jim Occi Magicicada Periodical

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

Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 6. 2021.

Teneral Magicicada:
Teneral Magicicada

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 Jim Occi Magicicada Periodical

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

Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 5. 2021.

Molting Magicicada:
Molting Magicicada

Teneral Magicicada:
Teneral Magicicada

Teneral Magicicada:
Teneral Magicicada

Teneral Magicicada expanding wings:
Teneral Magicicada

Adult Magicicada with crumpled wings:
Adult Magicicada with crumpled wings

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Brood X Jim Occi Magicicada Periodical

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

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).
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Magicicada septendecim with exposed tymbal:
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:
A pair of Magicicada

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Brood X Jim Occi Magicicada Periodical

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

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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Brood X Jim Occi Magicicada

Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi, set 2

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

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Brood X Jim Occi Magicicada

Brood X Magicicada Photos by Jim Occi

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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Elias Bonaros Megatibicen

2018 Megatibicen auletes hunt

Each year I go to Manchester, NJ to look for Megatibicen auletes aka Northern Dusk-Singing Cicadas. There are auletes in my zipcode, but they’re easier to find in the southern-half of New Jersey. The location is a favorite of Elias Bonaros’, and more times than not we sync-up and go auletes hunting as a team. Good times.

Two auletes are better than one:

M. auletes nymph:

M. auletes exit hole:
Neotibicen auletes exit hole

Megatibicen auletes in Manchester NJ:
Megatibicen auletes in Manchester NJ

Megatibicen auletes exuvia in Manchester NJ:
Megatibicen auletes exuvia in Manchester NJ

Megatibicen auletes climbing tree:
Megatibicen auletes climbing tree

* Note as of 2023 the name of this cicada has changed to Megatibicen grossus. You can also call it a Northern Dusk-Signing Cicada.

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Brood V Eye Color Magicicada Matt Berger Photos & Illustrations

Photos of Brood V cicadas in West Virginia by Matt Berger

Photos of Brood V Magicicada in West Virginia by Matt Berger (Instagram), including many examples of Magicicadas with a variety of eye colors (the typical color is red).

Brood V emerged in West Virginia (and Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Long Island, NY) in 2016. It will next emerge in 2033.

These photos are BIG. Click/tap the thumbnail for larger versions.

A Variety of Eye Colors:
A Variety of Eye Colors by Matt Berger

Teneral Periodical Cicada:
Teneral Periodical Cicada by Matt Berger

Teneral Cicada Up Close:
Teneral Cicada Up Close 2 by Matt Berger

Teneral Cicada Up Close:
Teneral Cicada Up Close 2 by Matt Berger

Molting Cicada by Matt Berger:
Molting Cicada 5 by Matt Berger

Molting Cicada by Matt Berger:
Molting Cicada by Matt Berger

Molting Cicada by Matt Berger:
Molting Cicada by Matt Berger

Molting Cicada by Matt Berger:
Molting Cicada by Matt Berger

Molting Cicada by Matt Berger:
Molting Cicada by Matt Berger

Gray Eyed Cicada by Matt Berger:
Gray Eyed Cicada by Matt Berger scaled

Gray Eyed Cicada by Matt Berger:
Gray Eyed Cicada by Matt Berger scaled

Cicada that sclerotized before it got out of its skin:
Cicada that sclerotized before it got out of its skin by Matt Berger

Cicada Fungus Infection by Matt Berger:
Cicada Fungus Infection by Matt Berger

Matt has contributed photos to cicadamania.com for many years. In 2016 he was a post-grad student at West Virginia University. The lab he was part of produced this paper:
Discovery of psychoactive plant and mushroom alkaloids in ancient fungal cicada pathogens
Greg R. Boyce, Emile Gluck-Thaler, Jason C. Slot, Jason E. Stajich, William J. Davis, Tim Y. James, John R. Cooley, Daniel G. Panaccione, Jorgen Eilenberg, Henrik H. De Fine Licht, Angie M. Macias, Matthew C. Berger, Kristen L. Wickert, Cameron M. Stauder, Ellie J. Spahr, Matthew D. Maust, Amy M. Metheny, Chris Simon, Gene Kritsky, Kathie T. Hodge, Richard A. Humber, Terry Gullion, Dylan P. G. Short, Teiya Kijimoto, Dan Mozgai, Nidia Arguedas, Matt T. Kasson
bioRxiv 375105; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/375105

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Brood XXII Magicicada Photos & Illustrations Roy Troutman

Photos of Brood XXII in Ohio and Kentucky by Roy Troutman

Photos of Brood XXII in Ohio and Kentucky by Roy Troutman.

Brood XXII is a brood of 13-year Magicicada. It emerges in a small area of Ohio & Kentucky, as well as Louisiana and Mississippi. It last emerged in 2014, and will emerge again in 2027.

Roy traveled around Ohio and Kentucky mapping locations were Magicicada were present. The result is the paper:
Kritsky, Gene & Troutman, Roy. (2014). The 2014 emergence of a previously unrecognized 13-year brood of periodical cicadas in southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky.

The photos are BIG. Click/tap the thumbnails below for larger versions.

13 Year Cicada molting by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo, Ohio in 2014:
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2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini adult on leaf by Roy Troutman:
2014 Magicicada on the bark of a tree

2014 Ohio Two Magicicada tredecassini Ecdysis by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio Two M tredecassini Ecdysis by Roy Troutman

2014 Ohio periodical cicadas on a trash bin by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio periodical cicadas on a trash bin by Roy Troutman

2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini Teneral by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio M tredecassini Teneral by Roy Troutman

2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini nymph on tree by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio M tredecassini nymph on tree by Roy Troutman

2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini Nymph by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio M tredecassini Nymph by Roy Troutman

2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini leaning back by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio M tredecassini leaning back by Roy Troutman

2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini cicada ecdysis by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio M tredecassini cicada ecdysis byRoy Troutman

2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini adult on leaf by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio M tredecassini adult on leaf by Roy Troutman

Piles of Magicicada skins and dead cicadas on the ground around the tree:
2014 Ohio Exuvia Pile by Roy Troutman

2014 Ohio adult Magicicada tredecassini by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio adult M tredecassini by Roy Troutman

13 Year Nymphs by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo Ohio in 2014:
13 Year Nymphs by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo Ohio in 2014

13 Year Nymph by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo, Ohio in 2014:
13 Year Nymph on tree by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo Ohio in 2014

13 Year Nymph by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo, Ohio in 2014:
13 Year Nymph by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo Ohio in 2014

13 Year Nymph by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo, Ohio in 2014 on tree:
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