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Brood XIII Eye Color

2 more cicada contest winners

A creamy white eyed cicada from Morton Grove by Judy Thorpe:

White eyed cicada

And…

A true-blue eyed cicada from Western Springs by Matt Weiss:

Blue eyed cicada

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Brood XIII Eye Color Magicicada

Another Blue/White Eye Contest Winner

Here’s a white eyed cicada from Grayson Martin.

White Eyed cicada

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Brood XIII

Emergence Update for 6/19/2007

We got our first IOWA sighting!

Questions:

  1. When will they be gone??? About 2 weeks after the last one emerges. By the time Independence day rolls around, most places will be “liberated” from them.
  2. What’s that smell??? Like any rotting animal, cicadas emit a funky stank after they die. I think they smell like old bacon grease, other’s say Limburger cheese, wet dog…
  3. I haven’t seen any cicadas yet, does that mean I won’t see/hear any? Probably; time to get in the car and go to them.

Locations:

  • Cedar River near Atalissa, Iowa
  • Lombard and Elmhurst are “cicada heaven”
  • At Lake Geneva at Aurora University the Cicada were EVERYWHERE
  • Singing in Wheaton
  • Palos Heights is crawling with these things.
  • All over the place in Wheeling, IL
  • EVERYWHERE in Schiller Park
  • Big Foot Beach State Park (southern Wisconsin next to Lake Geneva)
  • Aurora,IL
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Brood XIII Elias Bonaros Eye Color Magicicada

More Blue Eyed Cicada Contest Winners

This entry was submitted by Elias Bonaros and Barbara Rzeszutek, taken in Deerfield, IL:

Elias Bonaros and Barbara Rzeszutek, taken in Deerfield, IL

This entry was submitted by Chris Owen, taken at Lemon Lake County Park in Cedar lake, IN:

blue eyed cicadas

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Brood XIII Magicicada Photos & Illustrations

A couple of nice cicada photos from Joe Balynas

Click the images for larger versions:

Mating cicadas:

Joe Balynas 2007

A female cicada getting ready to lay some eggs:

Joe Balynas 2007

Joe Balynas 2007

Joe Balynas 2007

A Huge mass of cicada exuvia:

A Huge mass of cicada exuvia:

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Brood XIII Exuvia Magicicada

Exuvia mania

Joe Balynas sent us this picture of a mass of cicada exuvia (aka shells, skins, crisps). Make sure you click the image for the awesome larger version.

exuvia

See all Joe’s Magicicada photos.

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Audio, Sounds, Songs Brood XIII Joe Green Magicicada Video

Brood XIII Magicicadas by Joe Green

Brood XIII Magicicadas by Joe Green

Brood XIII Magicicadas by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.

Magicicada song by Joe Green

Magicicada song by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.

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Brood XIII Photos & Illustrations Pop Culture

Clever Cicada Photo Art

Cicada Invasion

Composite photo by Joyce Dinello, La Grange Park, IL. Contact Joyce at joycedinello@sbcglobal.net.

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Brood XIII Pop Culture

Cicada Mobile

It’s the Lake County Forest Preserves Cicada Mobile!

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Emergence Update for June 13th

Locations:

  • Still strong in Lombard and Hinsdale
  • Valparaiso Indiana
  • Like a horror movie on La Grange road
  • All over the downtown of Elmhurst
  • Des Plaines River Forest Preserves on Lake Ave., just east of River Road
  • Brookfield is infested
  • Marseilles is full of them!
  • The forest preserve just south of the tollway and the Cumberland exit
  • Tons of cicadas near the Purdue-North Central campus in Westville
  • North Ave in Elmhurst between York Rd & Rt 83, also southside of I290 on the way to Oak Park & on Irving Park Rd in the Forest Preserves in Schiller Park

Photos:

Some great photos on flickr by Catt: Cicada on a Pine Cone, Cicada on a Pine Cone, Cicada on a Shell!