Long Island Cicadas is a blog about cicadas created and maintained by artist & photographer Annette DeGiovine.
Annette is a fantastic photographer and citizen scientist.
Here’s a sample of the articles on the blog.
Dedicated to cicadas, the most amazing insects in the world.
Long Island Cicadas is a blog about cicadas created and maintained by artist & photographer Annette DeGiovine.
Annette is a fantastic photographer and citizen scientist.
Here’s a sample of the articles on the blog.
This is a selection of links to websites dedicated to the cicadas of Australia.
People ask, where can I buy cicadas online?
There are a lot of places, but here are my favorites:
Search around the web. You might find other shops and different varieties of cicadas not found on the sites mentioned above.
Keep in mind that some species might be over-collected to the point where it could endanger a species. I recommend, for that reason, that people limit their collections and not become too obsessed, as one might who collects toys or comic books.
Cicada season in New Zealand begins in November and lasts throughout their Summer months.
The species Maoricicada hamiltoni (Myers, 1926) aka Hamilton’s Cicada, in particular, emerges in November. M. hamiltoni is known for its abundant hair-like setulae (see an image on this page).
Here is a list of the best New Zealand cicada links:
Here is a nice article about the cicada Sounds of a Kiwi summer:
We have around 40 species of cicada in New Zealand, and probably the most familiar to us is the clapping cicada, which is actually two very closely related species that form the basis of our summer soundtrack in much of the country.
Some cicada New Zealand photos:
These sites contain information about both periodical and annual cicada species. Last updated on 9/2/2023.
Visit Tim McNary’s Bibliography of the Cicadoidea for many, many more cicada papers and articles.
Author: Allen F. Sanborn 1, and Polly K. Phillips (2013)
North American Cicadas. Features maps. “Abstract: We describe and illustrate the biogeography of the cicadas inhabiting continental North America, north of Mexico. Species distributions were determined through our collecting efforts as well as label data from more than 110 institutional collections.”
File located on cicadamania.com.
Author: Davis, William T. (William Thompson), 1862-1945; New York Entomological Society. Journal
North American Cicadas
File located on archive.org.
Author: Distant, William Lucas, 1845-1922
Cicadas of India, Southeast Asia and China
File located on archive.org.
Cicadidae of Turkey and some ecological notes on Tibicina serhadensis Kocak & Kemal from Van Province (East Turkey) (Homoptera) — Author: Muhabbet Kemal, Ahmet Omer Kocak, Vildan Bozaci
Cicadas of Turkey
File located on archive.org.
Author: C. L. Marlatt
Magicicada periodical cicadas
File located on archive.org.
Author: United States. Bureau of Entomology; Marlatt, C. L
Magicicada periodical cicadas
File located on archive.org.
Fieber, Franz Xaver, 1807-1872; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Cicadas of Europe
File located on archive.org.
W. L. Distant and W. W. Fowler
Cicadas of Central and South America
File located on www.sil.si.edu.
Prof. Douglas Galvao of the State University of Campinas
Magicicada periodical cicadas
File located on cicadamania.com.
Author: Heath, Maxine Shoemaker
Genera of American cicadas north of Mexico. Note a more recent book (scroll up) has been published in 2013.
File located on archive.org.
Author: Orbigny, Charles Dessalines d’, 1806-1876; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Contains a few cicada illustrations including a Tacua sp.
File located on archive.org.
If you’re interested in the cicadas of Brazil, and why wouldn’t you be, check out the blog Cigarras do Brasil. Many cool images, including the teeny-tiny Carineta fasciculata.
The site is in Portuguese, but I used Google Translate to grab the description of the blog:
This blog is for those admirers of the insects most beloved (and loudest) of the world. If you’ve ever heard them sing (and liked), have seen their shells in trees, have tried to capture them as a child, this space is yours.
The giant cicada, Quesada gigas, has returned to Texas after 50 years!
Here’s a link:
Giant Cicada / Chicharra Grande
Thanks to Roy Troutman and Mike Quinn.
Bonus: