You can use these images if you’re in the media, you’re an educator, or anyone else.
In case you want cicada images and videos to share, we’ve uploaded images to social media sites to make it easy to share the images. These images are often in the Creative Commons (License: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic.
), or otherwise owned by Dan Mozgai, and Dan doesn’t care if you share them for non-commercial reasons (i.e. fun).
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* Other images, videos, and audio on the site are copyrighted by the people who created that media, and I can’t grant use of their work.
Images and video of Magicicada cicadas (like those in Brood XIII)
Image of a male Magicicada septendecim (periodical/17-year species)
Image of a male Magicicada septendecim (periodical/17-year species)
Image of Magicicada septendecim (periodical/17-year species)
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There are more images from the series which I have been allowing the media/press to use with permission and attribution.
There’s an abundance of videos on our YouTube channel, for example:
How To Identify the Species of a Periodical Cicada / “Locust” / Magicicada
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17 Facts About 17 Year Cicadas
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Images and video of Neotibicen (summertime cicadas in the U.S.):
Do not use these to represent Brood XIII / Magicicada / Periodical Cicadas.
Image of a molting male Neotibicen tibicen (annual summertime species)
Image of a female Neotibicen tibicen (top) and female Neotibicen lyricen (bottom) (annual summertime types)
Video of a Neotibicen tibicen (annual summer species molting):
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Social Media
And like everyone else, we upload content to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Feel free to share that stuff as well. Knock your socks off.
Just watched the 18 minute video and loved it so much. Cańt find it again and want to share with my grandkids! Help!
@Ilana, here’s a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x71RaI-RxVM