Category: Magicicada

A quick way to tell the difference between the 7 periodical cicadas species

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Post date April 20, 2024
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Here is a quick way to tell the difference between the 7 periodical cicada species:

Download this chart. Click/tap for a larger version:

The songs of Magicicada cassini (17-year) and Magicicada tredecassini (13-year) are essentially identical:

M. cassini:

M. tredecassini:

The songs of Magicicada septendecula (17-year) and Magicicada tredecula (13-year) are essentially identical:

M. septendecula (©Joe Green):

M. tredecula:

The songs of Magicicada septendecim (17-year), M. neotredecim (13-year), and Magicicada tredecim (13-year) are essentially identical. M. neotredecim varies the sound of its call in the presence of M. tredecim.

M. septendecim:

M. neotredecim (© Insect Singers)

M. tredecim (© Insect Singers)

And/or watch this video:

Then read this and listen to the sound files on the page: Where will 17 & 13 Year Periodical Cicada Broods emerge next?

Books Brood XIII Brood XIX Magicicada Periodical

New Brood XIX and XIII Cicada Book by Dr. Gene Kritsky

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Post date February 1, 2024
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Cicada researcher and communicator Dr. Gene Kritsky has a new book about Brood XIX and XIII which are both emerging in the spring of 2024: A Tale of Two Broods: The 2024 Emergence of Periodical Cicada Broods XIII and XIX. It is available in paperback and Kindle formats.

Other posts about Dr. Gene Kritsky on this site:

Books Magicicada Periodical

Cicadapocalypse a graphic novel about periodical cicadas by Roger McMullan

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Post date November 8, 2023
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Roger McMullan has a new graphic novel about periodical cicadas called Cicadapocalypse. You can obtain a copy from Roger’s online store.

As I understand it, “the book is intended as an introduction to periodical cicadas for curious kids during a cicada emergence by creating a fictional narrative around the cicadas rather than hitting them over the head with facts”. A cicada emergence through the eyes of some shocked and surprised cartoon squirrels.

It looks fun to me.

cicadapocalypse

Brood V Magicicada Photos & Illustrations

Cicadas on leaves & trees – Brood V Magicicada from Morgantown, WV (2016), gallery #2

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Post date October 18, 2023
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This is a gallery of Magicicadas on leaves & trees from West Virginia University’s Core Arboretum from the 2013 Brood V emergence.

Visit Gallery #1 for more photos from Brood V.

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Magicicada septedecula hiding

Magicicada septendecim on a leaf

Magicicada with mustard eyes

Magicicada with pale eyes

Many Exuvia on Oak Leaves

Red and Orange eyes

Teneral Magicicada on leaf

Three Magicicada

Under A Leaf

Magicicada on leaves

Visit Gallery #1 for more photos from Brood V.

Brood V Eye Color Magicicada Photos & Illustrations

Core Arboretum – Brood V Magicicada from Morgantown, WV (2016), gallery #2

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Post date October 18, 2023
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This is a gallery of Magicicadas taken at West Virginia University’s Core Arboretum from the 2013 Brood V emergence.

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Visit Gallery #1 from more photos From the Core Arboretum, Morgantown, and Brood V.

Magicicada cassini on tree plague:

Magicicada exit chimney:

Magicicada septendecim abdomen:

Magicicada septendecim:

Magicicada with beige eyes:

Magicicada with damaged wings and beige eyes:

Magicicada with slightly orange markings on abdomen could be ‘decula or cassini:

Magicicada with white eyes:

Male Magicicada septendecim abdomen:

Many Magicicada exuvia and corpses:

Visit Gallery #1 from more photos From the Core Arboretum, Morgantown, and Brood V.

Brood V Magicicada Ovipositing Photos & Illustrations

Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania Magicicada Emergence Gallery #2

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Post date October 18, 2023
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Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania Magicicada Emergence Gallery #2.
These images are from 2016, Brood V.
Click/tap the image for a larger version.
Visit Gallery #1 as well.

Many Magicicada on a tree in the shade:

Ovipositing Magicicada septendecim:

Two Magicicada septendecim:

Zombie Cicada. Not Really, just dead:

Visit Gallery #1 as well.

Tags M. septendecim

Brood II Edward Johnson Elias Bonaros John Cooley Magicicada Periodical Photos & Illustrations Roy Troutman

Roy Troutman’s 2013 Brood II cicada photos, gallery 3

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Post date October 17, 2023
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When Roy Troutman visited New Jersey and New York in 2013 for Brood II he took a lot of great cicada photos.

Here is a sample of the best.
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Also visit Gallery #1 and Gallery #2.

Magicicada molting by Roy Troutman

Magicicada with exuvia by Roy Troutman

Mustard eyed Magicicada septendecim by Roy Troutman

Roy Troutman and Elias Bonaros at the Periodical Cicada display at the American Museum of Natural History, photo by Michelle Troutman

Roy Troutman, John Cooley, Ed Johnson and Dan Mozgai

Teneral Magicada by Roy Troutman

Tags M. septendecim

Brood II Edward Johnson John Cooley Magicicada Mating Periodical Photos & Illustrations Roy Troutman

Roy Troutman’s 2013 Brood II cicada photos, gallery 2

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Post date October 17, 2023
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When Roy Troutman visited New Jersey and New York in 2013 for Brood II he took a lot of great cicada photos.
Here is a sample of the best.
Click the images for a larger version.
Visit Gallery #1 and Gallery #3 as well.

John Cooley and Ed Johnson speaking at the Staten Island Museum Six Legged Sex event by Roy Troutman

Light Up Cicada Sculpture at the Staten Island Museum by Roy Troutman

Magicicada septendecim by Roy Troutman

Magicicada cassini flying inbetween calling in Colonia NJ by Roy Troutman

Magicicada cassini in flight in Colonia NJ by Roy Troutman

Magicicada corpses and exuvia by Roy Troutman

Magicicada mating by Roy Troutman

Magicicada exuvia by Roy Troutman

Magicicada septendecim mating by Roy Troutman

Magicicada staring at you by Roy Troutman

Tags M. cassini, M. septendecim

Brood XIII Magicicada Periodical Stragglers

Fall Magicicada cassini straggler found in Park Ridge, IL

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Post date October 3, 2023
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Mary Rotter Fullerton found, or rather heard and recorded, a Brood XIII Magicicada cassini straggler on October 2nd, 2023, in Park Ridge, Illinois! This cicada emerged 7 months early!

Listen to the edited file (volume increased, background noise removed):

There are squirrel sounds in the mix as well.

Mary says:

Very cool, I have never heard one in fall. It was in a 50-year old maple tree that hosted many stragglers (early Brood XIII?) this past spring of 2023. Park Ridge, IL.

Spectrogram:
Mary Rotter Fullerton

David Marshall of InsectSingers.com confirmed that this is indeed a Magicicada cassini.

David says:

Yes to me that’s unquestionably a set of cassini calls. There are some literature records of autumn Magicicada, sometimes with speculation that it’s related to sudden late-season warmups.

It looks like there’s been quite a few fall stragglers, according to the Magicicada Straggler project on iNaturalist.