{"id":19947,"date":"2024-05-03T09:58:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=19947"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:45:47","slug":"cicada-coloring-book-using-vintage-cicada-illustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-coloring-book-using-vintage-cicada-illustrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Coloring Book using Vintage Cicada Illustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Charles Lester Marlatt<\/strong> is the most well-known Magicicada researcher of all time. He spent the late 19th and early 20th-century researching periodical cicadas and establishing the location of their broods. Marlatt is responsible for the concept of broods and the name Magicicada (he thought the cicadas were Magical).<\/p>\n<p>The illustrations contained in his publications make excellent decorations that you can color and make crafts with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/downloads\/MagicicadaColor.pdf\">Download a free PDF<\/a> of Magicicada illustrations that you can print out and color and festoon around your house or classroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/downloads\/MagicicadaColor.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ColoringBook.webp\" alt=\"Cicada Coloring Book\" width=\"750\" height=\"648\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ColoringBook.webp 750w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ColoringBook-300x259.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/192317#page\/3\/mode\/1up\">The periodical cicada: an account of Cicada septendecim, its natural enemies and the means of preventing its injury : together with a summary of the distribution of the different broods<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/104035#page\/3\/mode\/1up\">The periodical cicada in 1914<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More cicada activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/the-cicada-olympics-engaging-kids-in-live-insect-activities\/\">The Cicada Olympics: Engaging Kids in Live Insect Activities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/17-year-cicada-cross-word-puzzle\/\">17-year cicada crossword puzzle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/share-your-fungus-infected-cicadas-with-matt-kasson-phd-please\/\">Share your fungus-infected cicadas with Matt Kasson, PhD, please<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/use-the-periodical-cicada-emergence-checklist-for-the-maximum-magicicada-experience\/\">Use the Periodical Cicada Emergence Checklist for the Maximum Magicicada Experience<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Lester Marlatt is the most well-known Magicicada researcher of all time. He spent the late 19th and early 20th-century researching periodical cicadas and establishing the location of their broods. Marlatt is responsible for the concept of broods and the name Magicicada (he thought the cicadas were Magical). The illustrations contained in his publications make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1052,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-c-l-marlatt","category-community-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}