Two new cicada publications worth reading
Two relatively new cicada publications that should be worth reading: 1) Avian Predation Pressure as a Potential Driver of Periodical Cicada Cycle Length by Walter D. Koenig and Andrew M. Liebhold, The...
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A day at the Staten Island Museum
I spent most of the day at the Staten Island Museum. The Staten Island Museum has North America’s largest collection of cicadas — over 35,000 specimens!!! Most, if not all the specimens came from...
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Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of...
Download the PDF here: www.cicadamania.com/downloads/diversity-05-00166.pdf. We are excited to announce the availability of a document by Allen F. Sanborn and Polly K. Phillips titled Biogeography of...
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August is a great time to look for Tibicen cicadas in North America
Now is a great time to look and listen for Tibicen cicadas in North America. Tibicen are the medium to large sized annual cicadas. Typically they are well camouflaged – with colors like black, white,...
View ArticleNorth American Cicada Websites
These sites contain information about both periodical and annual cicada species: Visit Tim McNary’s Bibliography of the Cicadoidea for many, many cicada papers and articles. Insect Singers. A new site...
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Visualizing all periodical cicada broods
Isn’t this a lovely picture (updated with colors sorted)? This image represents the combined range of all Magicicada periodical cicada broods, including the extinct Broods XI (last recorded in...
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Time to start looking for signs of periodical cicadas
Depending on where you live, it might be warm enough for periodical cicadas to start moving around underground, or start digging tunnels to the surface and building cicada “chimneys” above their holes....
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Cicada Fun with Google Trends
This article was inspired by Serious Fun with Google Trends by Simon Leather. Google Trends is a Google website that lets you see trends in the search terms over time. When people search for “cicada”...
View ArticleNeotibicen similaris apalachicola, a new cicada subspecies
A new subspecies of the Similar Dog-Day Cicada has been described in the paper A new Neotibicen cicada subspecies (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from the southeastern USA forms hybrid zones with a widespread...
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The Dusk Singers
Dusk is the time of day between sunset and night. Many species of Megatibicen & Neotibicen (formerly Tibicen) sing at this time. I’m not sure why they sing at this time — perhaps it helps them...
View ArticleA 3-Year Survey of Oklahoma’s 41 Cicadas
Cicada researcher Robert L. Sanders has written a paper documenting a 3-Year survey of Oklahoma cicadas. The paper is appropriately titled “A 3-Year Survey of Oklahoma Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea:...
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Website highlight: Long Island Cicadas
Long Island Cicadas is a blog about cicadas created and maintained by artist & photographer Annette DeGiovine. Annette is a fantastic photographer and citizen scientist. Here’s a sample of the...
View ArticleTwo new cicada publications worth reading
Two relatively new cicada publications that should be worth reading: 1) Avian Predation Pressure as a Potential Driver of Periodical Cicada Cycle Length by Walter D. Koenig and Andrew M. Liebhold, The...
View ArticlePacarina puella Davis, 1923
Pacarina puella Davis, 1923 is a small cicada. About 2 centimeters, according to BugGuide.You can find this cicada in the several southern (United) States, Mexico, and Central America. It is commonly...
View ArticleDiceroprocta biconica (Walker, 1850)
Diceroprocta biconica (Walker, 1850) was formerly known as Rihana biconica. The Rihana genus no longer exists. It is found in Cuba and Florida in the U.S. Listen to its song. Scientific classification:...
View ArticleQuesada gigas (Olivier, 1790)
Quesada gigas (Olivier, 1790) Is a cicada found in the United States (Texas), Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of Cultriformis in California
Megatibicen cultriformis (Davis, 1915), aka the Grand Western Flood Plain Cicada, is large cicada found in the states Arizona and New Mexico in the U.S. and in Mexico. According to the Biogeography of...
View ArticleNeotibicen tibicen tibicen with red cruciform elevations
Neotibicen tibicen tibicen with red cruciform elevations from Bill Reynold’s collection.
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