Brood I is also called the Blue Ridge brood, because the emergence occurs in the Blue Ridge Highlands area. Brood I has historically emerged along RT 81 in Virginia, parts of George Washington National Forest, Jefferson National Forest, and around the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area in West Virginia. Visit the Brood I page on Magiciada.org for more information and maps.

Get ready…

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Since Christmas is the time of gift giving, cicada books make great gifts for cicada enthusiasts, young and old. Ebay.com typically has thousands of cicada items, including actual cicadas, as does Etsy. You can buy cicada specimens online as well. And of course there’s a variety of Cicada Mania shirts and mugs to choose from.

I almost forgot the cicada skin Christmas wreath. :)

Afrikaans: sonbesie
Albanian: gjinkallë
Armenian: ts’ikada (ցիկադա)
Belarusian: cykady (цыкады)
Bengali: Ucciṇṛē (উচ্চিংড়ে)
Bulgarian: tsikada (цикада)
Catalan: cigala
Chinese: Chán (蟬)
Croatian: cvrčak
Czech: cikáda
Dutch: cicade
Estonian: tsikaad
Filipino: kuliglig
Finnish: laulukaskas
French: cigale
Galician: cigarra
German: Zikade
Greek: tzitzíki (τζιτζίκι)
Gujarati: Tīḍa (તીડ)
Haitian Creole: sigal
Hindu: Sikāḍā (सिकाडा)
Hungarian: kabóca
Indonesian: jangkrik
Italian: cicala
Japanese: Semi (セミ)
Kannada: Rekkeya (ರೆಕ್ಕೆಯ)
Korean: maemi (매미)
Latvian: cikāde
Macedonian: cikada (цикада)
Malay: Cengkerik
Polish: cykada
Portuguese: cigarra
Romanian: greier
Russian: tsikada (цикада)
Serbian: cikada (цикада)
Slovak: Cikada
Slovenian: Cvrčak
Spanish: cigarra
Swedish: cikada
Tamil: Cil vaṇṭu (சில் வண்டு)
Thai: Cạkcạ̀n (จักจั่น)
Turkish: ağustosböceği
Ukrainian: tsykada (цикада)
Vietnamese: con ve sầu

Cicada One

Cicada Two

Cicada Three

Cyclochila australasiae / Green Grocer1	Macrotristria angularis / Cherry Nose2	Cystosoma saundersii / Bladder cicada3
Pauropsalta mneme4	Lembeja paradoxa / Bagpipe cicada5	Diemaniana euronotiana6
Arunta perulata / White Drummer7	Psaltoda moerens / Redeye cicada8	Thopha saccata / Double Drummer9

Adding a Thompson’s Floury Baker (Abricta curvicosta)¹⁰ at David’s recommendation:

1. Cyclochila australasiae can be found in eastern Queensland, NSW and Victoria, and most emerge in October and November (¹ Moulds, M.S.. Australian Cicadas Kennsignton: New South Wales Press, 1990, p. 61.).
2. The Cherry Nose cicada can be found in Eastern Queensland, NSW, and a small part of South Australia, and is most common during November & December (² ibid, p. 95.).
3. The Bladder Cicada can be sound in eastern Queensland & NSW, and are most common Nov-Jan. (³ ibid, p. 193.)
4. The Pauropsalta mneme can be found in south-eastern NSW, Victoria, and a small pocket in South Australia, from late September to early January. (⁴ ibid, p. 131.)
5. The Bagpipe cicada can be found in the Northern tip of Queensland, from October to February, but they’re most common during January. (⁵ ibid, p. 178)
6. The Diemaniana euronotiana can be found in eastern NSW, south-eastern Victoria and Tasmania. They are most common in late November to January. (⁶ ibid, p. 112)
7. The White Drummer cicada can be found in eastern Queensland and NSW, from November to April, but they are most common during December and January. (⁷ ibid, p. 58)
8. The Redeye cicada can be found in eastern NSW, Victoria and Tasmania, and are most abundant in late November and December. (⁸ ibid, p.75)
9. The Double Drummer can be found in parts of eastern Queensland and Eastern NSW, from November to early March. (⁹ ibid, p.55)
10. The Floury Baker can be found along the coast of Queenland & NSW. Adults are most common in late December and January. (¹⁰ ibid, p.119)

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A quote from a press release:

New research has documented that cicadas, those noisy insects that sing during the dog days of summer, have been screaming since the time of the dinosaurs.

A fossil of the oldest definitive cicada to be discovered was described by George Poinar, Jr., Ph.D., professor of zoology at Oregon State University and Gene Kritsky, Ph.D., professor of biology, at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati. The cicada, measuring 1.26 mm in length, was named Burmacicada protera.

Read the full Press Release on the MSJ website.

Here is a photo of the ancient Burmacicada protera cicada nymph trapped in amber. Photo credit: George Poinar, Jr., Ph.D.

It looks a lot like a modern-day first-instar cicada nymph.

Update: Here’s a video news story about Gene’s fossil find.

I need a step-up my fossil collecting hobby. It looks like there’s some places in New Jersey to find fossils. Maybe I’ll find a cicada.

Now I turn to you, cicada fans, enthusiasts, and researchers: what would you like to see more of (or less of) on CicadaMania.com ? Please share your thoughts in the comments section of this post.

Looking forward, there’s the Brood I emergence next year in Virginia and West Virginia which should generate some buzz, and then Brood II in 2013 in the east which should be a big event.

Radiation from the Fukushima reactor is possibly impacting cicadas in Japan. I say possibly, because I don’t know for sure, but the following articles infer that radiation is playing a part in cicada deformities and complications during eclosing (when they shed their nymph skins and become adults). Looks like about 20% of cicadas are affected in the study mentioned in the articles. It will be interesting to see how this story plays out. If the affected cicadas were in areas that flooded during the tsunami, it could be their bodies were damaged by water soaking the ground or flooding their tunnels.

Breaking News: Radiation has started attacking DNA.

Photos of possibly affected cicadas:

奇形ゼミ続出、放射性物質は原発から３００km地点にまで大量降下した.

奇形ゼミ続出、放射性物質は原発から３００km地点にまで大量降下した.

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