\nDear Cicadamaniacs,<\/p>\n
If you have seen unusually large numbers of cicadas this year (or
\nlast),and have not seen such numbers for a long time, can you please
\nreport them to me? Chris dot Simon at UCONN dot edu? Please report
\nthe location in which you saw the cicada, what month and year, how
\nlong it has been since you have seen a similar emergence magnitude.<\/p>\n
This seems to be an unusually good cicada year, maybe related to
\nunusually wet or otherwise favorable weather:<\/p>\n
Dan Johnson from Southern Alberta, Canada reported an outbreak of
\nOkanagana synodica this year. He says: “I saw only a few between
\n1983 and 1985, then a few per year in 1986-88, then rare again, then
\nslightly more in 2000-2003, and only last year did they bloom, and
\nreally with a bang (more than 1000X). My study area is southern
\nAlberta and Saskatchewan, mainly mixed grass sites in Alberta, plus
\nfescue foothills.” He had not seen an emergence like this in the 20
\nyears he had worked there.<\/p>\n
John Cooley reports Okanagana rimosa and canadensis as being very
\ndense this year in Northern Michigan and Dan Vanderpool reported that
\nan unidentified species of cicada was out in Northern Idaho that
\nresidents noted they had never heard before (at least not in big
\nnumbers) and one respondent had lived there for 30 years.<\/p>\n
This record was from last year: Eric Toolson of New Mexico writes-
\nLast year, there was a widespread & heavy emergence of Tibicen
\ntownsendii across a rather large area of central New Mexico
\ngrassland. Prior to that, I knew of only one population in an area
\nof several hundred square miles, and that occupied an area of only
\nabout 2 hectares. That population has been emerging in good numbers
\nfor over a decade [in this location], but I never saw the species
\nanywhere else within a distance of several tens of miles in any
\ndirection. I had formed the impression that although T. townsendii
\nwas geographically widespread, its range was occupied by a relatively
\nfew, widely-scattered, discrete populations that were failing to
\noccupy what seems to be a lot of contiguous suitable habitat.<\/p>\n
Cicadas are known for their boom and bust years. It would be nice to
\nstart keeping track of them.<\/p>\n
Thanks very much,<\/p>\n
Chris<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chris Simon a Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut asked us to post this on our site, and so we did. Dear Cicadamaniacs, If you have seen unusually large numbers of cicadas this year (or last),and have not seen such numbers for a long time, can you please report them to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,201,9,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-simon","category-community-science","category-okanagana","category-proto-periodical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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