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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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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Cicada Fossils, part 2
From article in The Journal News:
“We found cicada fossils,” says Norell, who also discovered evidence of ginko trees on his expeditions to China.
Hopefully a few straggler Magicicadas will show up in Princeton this year.
Here’s a selection of links from last years emergence:
- Cicada photos from Julie Angarone.
- A video of cicadas in Princeton.
- Jim Occi’s cicada photos.
- Cicada song:
- Bugging the bugs: Students collect data on cicadas
- Campus a hospitable habitat for cicadas
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The Cicadas of Winter
Here’s a review for a Japanese Anime titled Human Crossing: the Cicadas of Winter. From the review, it doesn’t seem to have much to do with cicadas, but I’m posting the link anyway.
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A Chinese idiom
From Paul Frank’s Language Jottings:
The cicada knows nothing of snow. Said of someone who’s ignorant or inexperienced. There’s also the word huigu, platypleura kaempferi, a kind of bright-colored cicada, and the saying huigu bu zhi chun qiu, the cicada is ignorant of spring or autumn, i.e., limited in experience or vision.
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Cicada Soup
Deep End Dining has a post about cicada soup, including a picture of a big steaming bowl of them.
Here’s a story about oolong tea:
This type of tea, sometimes called “Oriental Beauty Tea” uses green leaf cicadas to suck on the plants before the leaves are harvested and fermented. Not only do the leaves have quite a variety of colors, but the taste of the tea is unique with its fruit and honey flavor.