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Here are two Cicada Killer Wasp photos by Elias Bonaros. The Cicada Killer Wasp has captured a Neotibicen tibicen tibicen cicada. These photos are from 2009.
Yes, Elias is holding the wasp and cicada on has hand!
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Cicada Killer Wasp and Neotibicen tibicen:
Cicada Killer Wasp and Neotibicen tibicen:
Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 6. 2021.
Teneral Magicicada:
Teneral Magicicada:
Magicicada septendecim that failed to completely exit its exuvia before its body hardened:
Magicicada septendecim that failed to completely exit its exuvia before its body hardened:
A pair of Magicicada septendecim:
More from Jim Occi:
Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 5. 2021.
Molting Magicicada:
Teneral Magicicada:
Teneral Magicicada:
Teneral Magicicada expanding wings:
Adult Magicicada with crumpled wings:
More from Jim Occi:
Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 4. 2021.
A Rutgers cap in Princeton (one day Rutgers needs to get that cannon back).
Magicicada septendecim with exposed tymbal:
A Magicicada with its abdomen wrecked by Massospora fungus.
Magicicada exit holes:
A pair of Magicicada septendecim:
More from Jim Occi:
Brood X Magicicada photos by Jim Occi taken in Princeton, set 3. 2021.
Magicicada septendecim on finger:
Teneral, newly molted Magicicada:
Magicicada septendecim perched on a plant stalk:
A mass of Magicicada skins:
Magicicada septendecim on a leaf:
More from Jim:
Here’s the second set of Brood X Magicicada septendecim photos by Jim Occi. The photos were taken in New Jersey in 2021.
Magicicada septendecim:
Magicicada septendecim:
Magicicada septendecim:
Magicicada septendecim:
More photos by Jim:
Jim Occi has contributed photos to Cicada Mania since the 2004 Brood X emergence.
Here are 5 photos from the recent Brood X emergence in New Jersey:
More photos by Jim:
Each year I go to Manchester, NJ to look for Megatibicen auletes aka Northern Dusk-Singing Cicadas. There are auletes in my zipcode, but they’re easier to find in the southern-half of New Jersey. The location is a favorite of Elias Bonaros’, and more times than not we sync-up and go auletes hunting as a team. Good times.
Two auletes are better than one:
M. auletes nymph:
M. auletes exit hole:
Megatibicen auletes in Manchester NJ:
Megatibicen auletes exuvia in Manchester NJ:
Megatibicen auletes climbing tree:
* Note as of 2023 the name of this cicada has changed to Megatibicen grossus. You can also call it a Northern Dusk-Signing Cicada.
Photos of Brood V Magicicada in West Virginia by Matt Berger (Instagram), including many examples of Magicicadas with a variety of eye colors (the typical color is red).
Brood V emerged in West Virginia (and Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Long Island, NY) in 2016. It will next emerge in 2033.
These photos are BIG. Click/tap the thumbnail for larger versions.
A Variety of Eye Colors:
Teneral Periodical Cicada:
Teneral Cicada Up Close:
Teneral Cicada Up Close:
Molting Cicada by Matt Berger:
Molting Cicada by Matt Berger:
Molting Cicada by Matt Berger:
Molting Cicada by Matt Berger:
Molting Cicada by Matt Berger:
Gray Eyed Cicada by Matt Berger:
Gray Eyed Cicada by Matt Berger:
Cicada that sclerotized before it got out of its skin:
Cicada Fungus Infection by Matt Berger:
Matt has contributed photos to cicadamania.com for many years. In 2016 he was a post-grad student at West Virginia University. The lab he was part of produced this paper:
Discovery of psychoactive plant and mushroom alkaloids in ancient fungal cicada pathogens
Greg R. Boyce, Emile Gluck-Thaler, Jason C. Slot, Jason E. Stajich, William J. Davis, Tim Y. James, John R. Cooley, Daniel G. Panaccione, Jorgen Eilenberg, Henrik H. De Fine Licht, Angie M. Macias, Matthew C. Berger, Kristen L. Wickert, Cameron M. Stauder, Ellie J. Spahr, Matthew D. Maust, Amy M. Metheny, Chris Simon, Gene Kritsky, Kathie T. Hodge, Richard A. Humber, Terry Gullion, Dylan P. G. Short, Teiya Kijimoto, Dan Mozgai, Nidia Arguedas, Matt T. Kasson
bioRxiv 375105; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/375105
Photos of Brood XXII in Ohio and Kentucky by Roy Troutman.
Brood XXII is a brood of 13-year Magicicada. It emerges in a small area of Ohio & Kentucky, as well as Louisiana and Mississippi. It last emerged in 2014, and will emerge again in 2027.
Roy traveled around Ohio and Kentucky mapping locations were Magicicada were present. The result is the paper:
Kritsky, Gene & Troutman, Roy. (2014). The 2014 emergence of a previously unrecognized 13-year brood of periodical cicadas in southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky.
The photos are BIG. Click/tap the thumbnails below for larger versions.
13 Year Cicada molting by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo, Ohio in 2014:
2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini adult on leaf by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio Two Magicicada tredecassini Ecdysis by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio periodical cicadas on a trash bin by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini Teneral by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini nymph on tree by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini Nymph by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini leaning back by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini cicada ecdysis by Roy Troutman:
2014 Ohio Magicicada tredecassini adult on leaf by Roy Troutman:
Piles of Magicicada skins and dead cicadas on the ground around the tree:
2014 Ohio adult Magicicada tredecassini by Roy Troutman:
13 Year Nymphs by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo Ohio in 2014:
13 Year Nymph by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo, Ohio in 2014:
13 Year Nymph by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo, Ohio in 2014:
13 Year Nymph by Roy Troutman taken in Chilo, Ohio in 2014 on tree:
