Cicada ManiaAdult Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. Chihuahua paw for scale.
Adult Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. On a human hand.
SoNtt Calendar: July 16th, July 22nd, July 23rd part 1, July 23rd part 2, July 24th, July 26th, July 27th, July 28th, July 29th, July 30th part 1, July 30th part 2, August 1st, August 4th, August 9th, August 11th, August 13th.
A Neotibicen tibicen tibicen cicada that crawled into spruce tree sap and molted:
I “rescued” the cicada and let it finish hardening in a butterfly pavilion so it didn’t get stuck in the sap.
SoNtt Calendar: July 16th, July 22nd, July 23rd part 1, July 23rd part 2, July 24th, July 26th, July 27th, July 28th, July 29th, July 30th part 1, July 30th part 2, August 1st, August 4th, August 9th, August 11th, August 13th.
This is the July 24th edition of the Summer of Neotibicen tibicen tibicen (aka Morning or Swamp Cicada) photo series.
Take a look at July 16th edition.
Molting Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. Note the blue on the wings and green eyes.
Molted Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. Note the green eyes and blue on the pronotum!
SoNtt Calendar: July 16th, July 22nd, July 23rd part 1, July 23rd part 2, July 24th, July 26th, July 27th, July 28th, July 29th, July 30th part 1, July 30th part 2, August 1st, August 4th, August 9th, August 11th, August 13th.
Enjoy the Neotibicen tibicen tibicen gallery for July 23rd, part 2!
A molting Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
A molting Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
A recently molted male Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
A molting Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
A recently molted male Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
A recently molted Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
A fully sclerotized Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
A fully sclerotized Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
SoNtt Calendar: July 16th, July 22nd, July 23rd part 1, July 23rd part 2, July 24th, July 26th, July 27th, July 28th, July 29th, July 30th part 1, July 30th part 2, August 1st, August 4th, August 9th, August 11th, August 13th.
Enjoy the Summer of Neotibicen tibicen tibicen gallery for July 23rd, part 1.
A recently molted male Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
Two recently molted Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. Male in the foreground, Female in the background.
A fully sclerotized female Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
A recently molted male Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
A recently molted male Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. I don’t know how it got around that spruce sap!
A molting Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
A molting Female Neotibicen tibicen tibicen:
SoNtt Calendar: July 16th, July 22nd, July 23rd part 1, July 23rd part 2, July 24th, July 26th, July 27th, July 28th, July 29th, July 30th part 1, July 30th part 2, August 1st, August 4th, August 9th, August 11th, August 13th.
This is the July 22nd edition of the summer of Neotibicen tibicen tibicen photo series.
Take a look at July 16th edition.
Trivia: an older name of this cicada was Tibicen chloromera. Chloromera means green thighs.
Note the green thighs of these molting (formerly known as) chloromera:
SoNtt Calendar: July 16th, July 22nd, July 23rd part 1, July 23rd part 2, July 24th, July 26th, July 27th, July 28th, July 29th, July 30th part 1, July 30th part 2, August 1st, August 4th, August 9th, August 11th, August 13th.
In my town, Neotibicen tibicen tibicen cicadas, commonly know as Morning Cicadas (because they sing in the morning) or Swamp Cicadas (not a good name because they live in a variety of habitats), are the dominant annual cicada species. Each summer they emerge in good numbers and molt on spruce trees, where I observe and photograph them. Each year is different, but usually they arrive the first week of July and continue to emerge until the second or third week of August.
This post will be one of many featuring night and some daytime photo, with one or two posts devoted to a single day.
Molting Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. Note the blue color of the wings and green eyes:
One of the more interesting aspects of their transformation is when their head separates from the rest of the body so it can widen, and then is pulled back onto the rest of the body.
A different Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. Note the blue color of the wings, green eyes and green legs:
SoNtt Calendar: July 16th, July 22nd, July 23rd part 1, July 23rd part 2, July 24th, July 26th, July 27th, July 28th, July 29th, July 30th part 1, July 30th part 2, August 1st, August 4th, August 9th, August 11th, August 13th.
We had a short Neotibicen cicada season in New Jersey in 2022.
I’m used to finding molting Neotibicen cicadas between the first week of July and the last week of August. This year they started emerging in the first week of July, but the last one I found was on August 2nd.
I wonder if the short season was due to the major drought or heat waves New Jersey experienced this summer.
Here are some photos of a freshly-molted/teneral(soft) Morning cicada:
Male freshly-molted Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. Ventral view. Note the opercula.
Male freshly-molted Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. Side view.
Male freshly-molted Neotibicen tibicen tibicen with folded wings:
More from the 2022 season: Neotibicen tibicen tibicen female cicada molting, Neotibicen lyricen found in central New Jersey, and Neotibicen linnei in Northern New Jersey.
A Neotibicen tibicen tibicen female cicada molting. Also known as Morning or Swamp cicada. 2022, Central New Jersey.
Here’s some photos of Molting Neotibicen tibicen tibicen cicadas taken in New Jersey in July of 2021.
