{"id":3450,"date":"2013-02-04T22:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T05:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2020-03-23T20:24:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T03:24:55","slug":"a-day-at-the-staten-island-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/a-day-at-the-staten-island-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"A day at the Staten Island Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent most of the day at the Staten Island Museum<\/a>. The Staten Island Museum has North America’s largest collection of cicadas — over 35,000 specimens!!! Most, if not all the specimens came from William T. Davis’ personal collection. Davis was a naturalist and entomologist located in Staten Island, NY, who was active in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Read more about the collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The museum is currently working on a huge cicada exhibit and many cicada events throughout the year. The They’re Baaack! Return of the 17-year Cicada Family Day<\/a> event will happen in a few weeks. <\/p>\n

Here’s a few shots of the museum and the collection I took with my camera phone:<\/p>\n

Part of their giant Wall of Insects:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Wall<\/p>\n

Number 39 in that photo is Hemisciera maculipennis, aka the “stop and go cicada”. When alive the cicada’s coloring is green and red, like a traffic signal. Here is a photo of a live H. maculipennis.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tibicen and Cicada Killer Wasps:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Tibicen<\/p>\n

Tacua speciosa detail:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Tacua<\/p>\n

A giant light-up cicada outside the museum:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Light<\/p>\n

Just part of the Staten Island Museum’s cicada collection<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"stacks<\/p>\n

Thanks to Ed Johnson, Director of Science, for showing me many of amazing specimens in the museum’s collection.<\/p>\n

Bonus: You can download a copy of William T. Davis’ document North American Cicadas<\/a>. It’s free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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