chicago cicadas

Cool cicada nymph photo...

...as featured on the Greensboro Birds blog. Great blog. Lots over very cool photos.

If I wanted a cicada-inspired name for my child, I'd probably just call him "Buzz"

Would you name your child Spiral Cicada? (stuff.co.nz)

Iowa youth builds cicada house for 4H project

What's next? Cicada condos? (WCF Courier)

Sunday evening cicada jewelry news round up

Long after the cicadas are gone, cicada jewelry lives on:

• Dead cicadas make quiet jewelry (UPI)
• Teens Make Jewelry Out Of Dead Cicadas (BostonChannel.com)
• Talkers: Teens make jewelry out of cicadas (Kansas City Star)
• Cape entrepreneurs roll out bug jewelry (Boston Globe)
• Cicada Jewelry: Wing Bling (RedOrbit, Dallas, Texas)
• Cape Teens Sell Dead Cicadas As Jewelry (WBZ, Boston)
• Fashion bug: Teens turn dead cicadas into jewelry (Guardian, UK)
• Teens turn dead bugs into fashion statement (Tampabay.com)

 

Sunday Cicada Round-Up

Are the cicada songs waning in your neighborhood? Two weeks ago, driving through north-central Kentucky, the cicada symphony invaded our car through closed windows, loud radio and blazing air conditioner. Funny thing about cicadas, we rant and rave about the noise and the shell litter. But when they're gone, there's something I miss in the silence.

Here's your Sunday Cicada News Round Up. Enjoy them while they last.

• Readers rhyme on cicada time -- Cincinnati Enquirer. Cicada limerick contest winners.
• Three really creepy bug stories -- Kentucky.com
• Insects' loud song isn't bugging Connecticut scientist -- Daily Mail - Charleston,WV
• They're Back: Cape Cod Cicada Invasion 2008 -- Cape Cod Today
• Millions of cicadas screech a serenade -- MSNBC
• Fish Often Go Buggy for Cicadas -- RedOrbit - Dallas,TX
• For love of a bug -- Cape Cod Times
• Call Of The Cicadas In Full Force On Long Island -- WCBS-TV New York - NY
• Cicadas expected to stay until early July -- Huntington Herald Dispatch
• Disease-spreading citrus bug found in Orleans... -- WWL - New Orleans,LA. Asian citrus psyllid: Looks like a cicada, but much dangerous for citrus farmers.
• Coram and other communities overrun with cicadas -- Newsday - Long Island,NY
• Hear that cicada chorus, taste that cicada crunch -- Cape Cod Times

 

 

Fish bite cicadas

Kentucky anglers are baiting up with cicadas to land lunkers. (The

• More cicada fishing news from the Glasgow Daily Times.

Cicada crazy in Cincinnati

"Other Voices" writer crazy for cicadas. Or is that crazy from cicadas? (Cincinnati Enquirer)

There once was a cicada from kenwood...

Cincinnati Enqurier revisits 2004 cicada limerick contest and announces a new competition.

How do you herd cicadas?

So, what do you call a group of cicadas? A swarm, right? But since periodical cicadas arrive just once every 13 or 17 years, don't they deserve special name? Maybe something more fitting to their personality?

Here are some suggestions:

• A symphony of cicadas
• A pester of cicadas
• A panic of cicadas
• A wave of cicadas
• A hum of cicadas
• A blur of cicadas
• A crunch of cicadas

Share your suggestions for what to call a swarm of cicadas (besides a swarm) with Chicago Cicadas.

Cicada FAQs

Know your cicadas: An FAQ primer from The Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, West Virginia).