Nature photographer Candice Trimble of Front Royal, Va, sent us these Brood II Magicicada photos.
An adult Magicicada septendecim (Linnaeus 1758):
Magicicada exuvia (shell):
Magicicada adult (probably an M. septendecim):
Photos & Illustrations of cicadas.
May 18, 2013
Brood II cicada photos from Front Royal, Va
Photos of a Brood II Magicicada from Madison, NC.
These photos of a Magicicada undergoing ecdysis (moulting) in Madison, NC are by photographer Heather James.
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The “white strings” connecting the teneral (soft) adult cicada to its exuvia (shell, skin) are the old lining of the cicada’s trachea (the tubes through which it breathed).
March 8, 2010
Terengganua sibylla
Update: the name of this cicada is actually Trengganua sibylla (confirming after consulting Allen Sanborn’s giant cicada book. You’ll find people also refer to this cicada as Tosena sybilla.
A pair of Terengganua sibylla mating.
This website has a audio file of the Terengganua sibylla signing.
October 25, 2009
Cicada Images for your site
People have asked for “free” cicada images in the past, and many simply “steal” images from this site. I’m providing a selection of cicada images you can embed on your web page, Facebook, twitter, etc. All we ask is that you give credit to cicadamania.com. The images are released under a “Create Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic” license.
Example:
Crippled Tibicen
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June 7, 2009
New Cicada Photo Flickr Group
I started a group on Flickr for Cicada Photos. Each week I’ll troll Flickr for the best and invite them to the group, but any one is welcome to submit their photos!
July 5, 2008
A monograph of oriental cicadidae (1892) by Willian Lucas
I recently found a book called A monograph of oriental cicadidae in the Internet Archive. The A monograph of oriental cicadidae was authored by W. L. Distant, and published in 1892 — that’s 116 years ago! The book contains plenty of text and illustrations, some of which I’ll include below:
Angamiana etherea
Cicada taglica
Cosmopsaltria tripurasura
Peciliopsaltria hampsoni
Terpnosia stipata
Tosena depicta
Tosena sibylla
Tosena splendida
August 10, 2007
Cicada from Kyrenia, Cyprus
Wendy submitted this photo of a cicada taken this July in Kyrenia, Cyprus (yes, the island nation in the Mediterranean sea). I’m excited any time I can expand the international diversity of cicada photos on this website.
June 19, 2007
A couple of nice cicada photos from Joe Balynas
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Mating cicadas:
A female cicada getting ready to lay some eggs:
A Huge mass of cicada exuvia:
June 14, 2007
Clever Cicada Photo Art
Composite photo by Joyce Dinello, La Grange Park, IL. Contact Joyce at joycedinello@sbcglobal.net.
June 12, 2007
Blue Eyed Magicicada from Villa Park IL
Paula King’s son found this cicada in Villa Park, IL. In the picture they eyes are white, but Paula observed that the eye color would actually vacillate between blue and white over the course of time. That’s an important observation.
Here’s another picture from Paula of a cicada with mustard colored eyes:
