Dedicated to cicadas, the most amazing insects in the world.
Greg Spahr reports from John Bryan State Park in Yellow Springs, Ohio:
I was out birdwatching yesterday and was shocked and surprised to hear a few Magicicada Cassini calling. I didn’t know about the stragglers until I got on the web and found the reports on your site. In any case, I could hear about 10 individuals calling at John Bryan State Park in Yellow Springs, Ohio yesterday (June 5th).
From 5 Channel Cinncinati:
Pesky Cicadas Are Back
1,000 Stragglers Could Pop Up This SummerCINCINNATI — Tri-staters thought they saw the last of the cicadas for a few years, but a local woman is saying they’re back.
Target 5’s Michelle Hopkins checked into the situation and found proof — a dead cicada that lived about three days in Springfield Township.
Matt Berger sent us this excellent photo of male and female cassini stragglers, found in Loveland, Ohio.
It is possible that Brood XI is not extinct. Brood XI hasn’t been recorded since in 1950’s, however, David Marshall of the University of Connecticut “would not be surprised if there are small patches of them that have been missed since much of southern New England is not that densely inhabited”.
If you’re in the Connecticut, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island area this spring and you hear or see a Magicicada, please let us know.
Check out this picture of a female Magicicada cassini straggler taken by Edwin Huizinga of Baltimore, MD!
So far today we’ve had a report from Baltimore MD, and Pohatcong Twp. NJ (see the message board). Stay tuned…
We’ve had a report of a straggler found in Bethesda Maryland.
Details are developing…
If you find a straggler, take a photo. Better yet, take a photo of the cicada next to today’s paper so we can have a record of the date.
We’ve had a straggler Magicicada sighting in Cherry Grove, OH!
More details to follow…
Washington Memories from the Washington Examiner:
Ah, the memories … It was around this time last year when the Washington summer air was full of love, full of life, full of … cicadas. Well, the cicadas have gone away, burrowed under the ground for the next 17 years. But fear not, cicada lovers. A similar invasion is just around the corner … summer interns. And they’re akin to cicadas in more ways than one …
Hey folks: there’s still a chance we’ll see stragglers.
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.
