Category: Magicicada

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Brood XI: Alive?

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.

1907 Map of Brood XI from Marlatt, C.L.. 1907. The periodical cicada. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology.

Marlatt 1907 11 Brood XI

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Magicicada Periodical Periodical Stragglers

They’re Back! An actual photo of a straggler!

Brood X Straggler.
Check out this picture of a female Magicicada cassini straggler taken by Edwin Huizinga of Baltimore, MD!

Brood X Straggler.

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Magicicada Periodical Stragglers

More Straggler Reports! Maryland and New Jersey

So far today we’ve had a report from Baltimore MD, and Pohatcong Twp. NJ (see the message board). Stay tuned…

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Magicicada Periodical Stragglers

Straggler found in Bethesda Maryland

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.

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Straggler sighting in Cherry Grove, OH

We’ve had a straggler Magicicada sighting in Cherry Grove, OH!

More details to follow…

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The cicadas are back! (sort of… )

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.

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Brood X Cicada Mania Magicicada Video

Cicadas (and me) on CNN

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.

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Flickr for Cicada Pictures: Update

Happy Monkey has a nice collection of Brood X photos. Thanks to Flying Fur for the link.

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Audio, Sounds, Songs Brood X Magicicada

Princeton 2004 Revisited

NJ 2004.Hopefully a few straggler Magicicadas will show up in Princeton this year.

Here’s a selection of links from last years emergence:

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Brood X Magicicada Periodical

More Brood X Cicada Articles

Reminiscing about the Brood X emergence of 2004:

Princeton: Bugging the bugs: Students collect data on cicadas.

During the next few weeks — as these “Brood X” cicadas emerge from 17 years of subterranean growth and play out their brief but noisy above-ground mating ritual — Princeton students will investigate a range of questions about how the insects behave and interact with the environment.

Golf: Muirfield the summer home this year for cicadas. Cicadas disrupting pro golfers. (thx b1nge).

“I thought we had some big bugs in Africa, but these things …” Ernie Els said.

Golf: A New York Times article about how the cicadas are making life miserable for pro golfers. Awwww. (thx AJay).

Usually, the biggest problem during the week of the Memorial Tournament is rain. This year, the biggest problem could be insects.