Matt Berger ent us some straggler pictures taken earlier this year:
July 8, 2005
June 27, 2005
Jake is Cicada Maniac
From this article in the Shippensberg Sentinel:
Jake Crider takes a bite of a chocolate-covered cicadas. He has kept a container of pre-cooked, frozen periodical cicadas that he harvested last year.
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June 10, 2005
$50 Reward for Cicadas
Hey folks, I just got this message from John Cooley, a cicada researcher:
Have I got a deal for you……..see the attached. We’re hoping to
mobilize the cicada fan club to see whether our local brood really
has gone extinct (I think it has- no sightings at last known patch in
1971, 1988, or 2005).There’s more info about this on Cicada Central— I’ll also consider
some sort of a reward for significant collections of live M.
septendecim stragglers from the eastern part of Brood X, and I’ll
grant the full reward for XI specimens in the CT river valley of MA
and CT, as well as anywhere in RI.— John Cooley
home page: http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/jcooley/
So, if you find a Magicicada in those areas, and have proof, please contact John.
June 6, 2005
Brood X Straggling in Hedgesville WV
Gerry Bunker sent us these pictures of a straggler from Hedgesville, WV, which he found on June 1st.
Visit Gerry’s excellent cicada web sites for more information:
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Straggler Cicadas in Yellow Springs, Ohio
Greg Spahr reports from John Bryan State Park in Yellow Springs, Ohio:
I was out birdwatching yesterday and was shocked and surprised to hear a few Magicicada Cassini calling. I didn’t know about the stragglers until I got on the web and found the reports on your site. In any case, I could hear about 10 individuals calling at John Bryan State Park in Yellow Springs, Ohio yesterday (June 5th).
June 2, 2005
1,000 Stragglers Could Pop Up This Summer
From 5 Channel Cinncinati:
Pesky Cicadas Are Back
1,000 Stragglers Could Pop Up This SummerCINCINNATI — Tri-staters thought they saw the last of the cicadas for a few years, but a local woman is saying they’re back.
Target 5’s Michelle Hopkins checked into the situation and found proof — a dead cicada that lived about three days in Springfield Township.
June 1, 2005
Ohio Straggler cassini Male and Female
Matt Berger sent us this excellent photo of male and female cassini stragglers, found in Loveland, Ohio.
May 31, 2005
Brood XI: Alive?
It is possible that Brood XI is not extinct. Brood XI hasn’t been recorded since in 1950’s, however, David Marshall of the University of Connecticut “would not be surprised if there are small patches of them that have been missed since much of southern New England is not that densely inhabited”.
If you’re in the Connecticut, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island area this spring and you hear or see a Magicicada, please let us know.
1907 Map of Brood XI from Marlatt, C.L.. 1907. The periodical cicada. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology.
May 30, 2005
They’re Back! An actual photo of a straggler!
Check out this picture of a female Magicicada cassini straggler taken by Edwin Huizinga of Baltimore, MD!
May 29, 2005
More Straggler Reports! Maryland and New Jersey
So far today we’ve had a report from Baltimore MD, and Pohatcong Twp. NJ (see the message board). Stay tuned…
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