Thanks to Roy Troutman for reminding me about my interview which appeared in the Star Ledger recently. It’s about Cicada Mania and blogging in general.
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Month: October 2007
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Cicada Quote from author John Berger
‘Your voice, he interrupted, is also like a cicada, not only a corn-crake. Do you know the legend about cicadas?
They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems
they wanted to.’
… from author John Berger.
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Cicada Time in Australia
It’s cicada time in Australia again, so I’m reposting my list of Australian cicada names. Australians are the best in the world at naming animals.
Australia has the best cicada names:
- Cyclochila australasiae
- Green Grocer
- Yellow Monday
- Chocolate Soldier
- Blue Moon
- Masked Devil
- Macrotristria angularis
- Cherrynose or Whiskey Drinker
- Tettigarcta crinita
- Hairy Cicada
- Pauropsalta extrema
- Typewriter [picture]
- Lembeja paradoxa
- Bagpipe Cicada [picture]
- Cystosoma saundersii
- Bladder Cicada
- Abricta curvicosta
- Floury Baker
- Psaltoda moerens
- Redeye
- Cherryeye
- Anapsaltoda pulchra
- Golden Emperor [picture]
- Arenopsaltria fullo
- Sandgrinder [picture]
- Arunta perulata
- White Drummer
- Macrotristria godingi
- Tiger Prince [picture]
- Thopha saccata
- Double Drummer [picture]
- Psaltoda plaga
- Black Prince [picture close to center of page]
- Tamasa tristigma
- Brown Bunyip [Brown Bunyip]
There’s plenty more on the the incredible CSIRO Common Names site.
Two new cicada photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García from Spain:
We received a report of Magicicadas being heard in the fall. Normally Magicicadas appear in the spring of course, but they might be tricked into emerging later if a dormant tree is revived.
My speculation: maybe the warm fall weather has tricked them into thinking it is spring.
I have no visual or audio evidence for you.