Charles Lester Marlatt is the most well-known Magicicada researcher of all time. He spent the late 19th and early 20th-century researching periodical cicadas and establishing the location of their broods. Marlatt is responsible for the concept of broods and the name Magicicada (he thought the cicadas were Magical).
The illustrations contained in his publications make excellent decorations that you can color and make crafts with.
Download a free PDF of Magicicada illustrations that you can print out and color and festoon around your house or classroom.
Sources:
- The periodical cicada: an account of Cicada septendecim, its natural enemies and the means of preventing its injury : together with a summary of the distribution of the different broods
- The periodical cicada in 1914
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