Dedicated to cicadas, the most amazing insects in the world.
Photos & Illustrations of cicadas.
Megatibicen dorsatus is arguably the most beautiful cicada in the United States. Even it its teneral (meaning soft) form right after molting, in is visually impressive.
These three photos were taken by Greg Holmes of a Megatibicen dorsatus in its post-molting, teneral state.
This is a gallery of Magicicadas taken at West Virginia University’s Core Arboretum from the 2013 Brood V emergence.
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More from Brood V:
This is a gallery of Magicicadas on leaves & trees from West Virginia University’s Core Arboretum from the 2013 Brood V emergence.
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More from Brood V:
These are photos of Magicicada from the Brood V emergence in Morgantown, WV in 2016.
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More from Brood V:
This is a series of molting and recently molted teneral (soft) cicadas from the 2013 Brood II Magicicada emergence in Metuchen, NJ.
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Other galleries in this series:
Photos of dead specimens from the Brood II Magicicada emergence in Middlesex County, NJ, in 2013.
Brood II Magicada collection from 2013:
Brood II Magicada collection from 2013:
Comparison of Male and Female Magicicada genitalia:
Magicicada septendecula female abdomen:
Magicicada septendecim hind wing:
Male Magicicada septendecim infected with Massospora cicadina fungus:
These are photos of live cicada specimens from the 2013 Brood II emergence in Middlesex County, NJ.
Magicicada septendecim Metuchen NJ:
Male Magicicada septendecim Metuchen NJ. Abdomen.
Male Magicicada septendecim Metuchen NJ:
Male Magicicada septendecim Metuchen NJ:
Male Magicicada Metuchen NJ:
Female Magicicada septendecim Metuchen NJ:
Male M. septendecim Metuchen NJ:
People and cicadas – Brood II Magicicada from Metuchen, New Jersey (2013).
These are photos of people and cicadas from Brood II.
My sister and a cicada:
Can I give you a hand?
Artist Asher Jay and a friend collecting cicadas:
John Cooley being interviewed by the New York Times with musician David Rothenberg in the foreground:
These are photos of a Magicicada septendecim with yellow-white eyes, which is rare, but you can usually find one or two if you spend enough time looking for them. The photos were taken during the 2013 Brood II emergence in Metuchen, NJ.
These are some small cicada chimneys created by Magicicada during Brood II in 2013 in Metuchen. Magicicadas occasionally create chimneys above the holes they emerge from — more often when the soil is wet or ground is shadowed (under a deck, in a lawn mower shed). These were shaded by a large pine.
