Two random cicada-related images.
Various cicada ephemera, including a cicada pencil, fishing lures, keychains, pins, etc.:
A Seminingen — a character from the show Ultraman — and a Cicada Man bobble head.
Category: Pop Culture
Cicada Carousel Ride at the Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois. 2007 in celebration of Brood XIII.
Here’s a snippet of an Archie McPhee advertisement for the Lucky Cicada toy/keychain. The image was sent to us my Suzanne M.
Whining Cicada with Blinking Eyes Keyring
Also called the “cicada toy that may shrill”This is for everyone who has lived with treefulls of these screaming locusts, has moved away from locust country, and secretly misses them. This lifelike beast, though, far beats any you might have encountered. When you press the metal button on its belly, its eyes flash green and it emits a gut-wrenching cicada whine that sounds like the background music in a science fiction thriller. And it lasts 20 whole seconds! And “since it has cells, you can play anytime.” That’s what it says. Black body, realistic, detailed green wings. 2-3/8″ long, about 1-1/2″ wide at the widest point. Great packaging. Each cicada is blistersealed on a 3-1/2″ x 5″ card with great illustrations. Part of the forest bug series. Nifty pocket clip. And, it’s a keyring. No one could live without this for very long after finding out it exists.
Back in the 1990’s Archie McPhee/Accoutrements distributed the Lucky Cicada, a toy with a keyring that would sing when you squeezed its abdomen. Its eyes lit up green too.
All we have now are memories and memorabilia, because they aren’t making them anymore. That said, there are manufacturers in China who have the plans and will make them. That’s a story for another day. Thanks to Roy Troutman for the images.
Front and back packaging:
The keychain and packaging:
4 different paint jobs. And red eyes! Collect them all!
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Mystery Cicada Object
Roy Troutman sent us photos of this mysterious cicada-shaped object. We don’t know what it is, but it looks cool.
Front:
Back:
Wings spread:
Tom Lehmkuhl sent us this photo of an uninvited house guest, a Neotibicen linnei cicada.
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Cicada Skin Lamps by Gaye Williams
Cicada Skin (exuvia, molts, “shells”) Lamps by Gaye Williams.
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Vincent van Gogh’s Three Cicadas
People love cicada art possibly more than they love cicadas (my social media posts about cicada art get more views than photos of cicadas).
Here’s Vincent van Gogh’s Three Cicadas. It’s an ink & paper sketch and study. He created it in 1889, in Saint-rémy-de-provence, France. If you want to see it IRL, it’s at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
I’d like to, but I can’t think of something clever to say about the fact that cicadas sing, and van Gogh removed his left ear.
Halloween is almost here, and so I created something special for that time of year: a poster of cicadas with pronotal collars that look like Dracula’s collar — or at least Bela Lugosi’s Dracula. Or maybe Dr. Strange?
Download the large 1.4MB version.
The image features the cicada’s species name and where it can be found. To save space, I went with the continent(s) in when the cicada is found in multiple nations or continents.
The images of cicadas come from the Genera Insectorum 1913, Genera Insectorum 1914, and Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. Vol. I (1881-1905). Old but classic and important documents with plenty of awesome cicada illustrations.
Happy Halloween!!
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Cicada Fun Page
This page collects most of the fun stuff on the site. Everything on the site is fun, but these are fun on purpose.
Arts and Crafts
A PDF of cicada images you can download for coloring (PDF 1MB)
What it looks like:
Computer Fun
Cicada Cursors if you like to customize your PC (Windows). Unfortunately, it’s one of those things that only works on Windows.
Technically you can use CSS to make them appear on desktop web pages as well.
Cicada Experiments
Six Cicada Experiments you can perform.
Use the Periodical Cicada Emergence Checklist to track your enjoyment of a periodical cicada emergence.
Memes
Keep Calm – They’re Only 17-Year Cicadas Meme.
Get the t-shirt and support this website. for Men or Women.
Brood X emerged in 2004, around the same time the iPod silhouette commercials were popular:
People worry if cicadas are safe to eat, especially for pets.
Do you have a cicada sipping on the root of your Xmas tree?
I remember the first time I became aware of Australian cicadas. I made this image. (Cicadas are not marsupials)
People worry if cicadas will spoil their weddings. This is an image of a cicada bride.
Cicadas on a Plane. There wasn’t much cicada news going on when I made this…
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