61. ProTeacher BusyBoard Community This is all I can think of lol probably because I am not a big insect fan. I showed my class a cicada picture and they almost passed out LOL http://www.proteacher.net/dcforum/busy_board/6999.html

Archive Directory Home Jump to a different board! Busy Board Primary K-3 Intermediate VENT Subject Boards Substitute Teachers Student Teachers Special Education Many More Boards... Start A New Board! "Cicada Invasion!" Report inappropriate posting on this thread Advertisement Rude/Mean Off Topic Cross-Posting Printer Friendly Format Original Message "Cicada Invasion!" Posted by Laura H. on May-09-04 at 10:26 PM (EST) Hello from the midwest! We are planning a cicada camp in our classroom this Friday. We have a lot of "campy" activities, but I would love to do a craft with them. I am fresh out of ideas since I was only 5 years old the last time they were around. PLEASE help with suggestions List of Replies Bugs... Lori V. May-10-04, (1) bugs! ck May-10-04, (2) Replies 1 . "Bugs..." Posted by Lori V. on May-10-04 at 04:30 AM (EST) This is all I can think of...lol probably because I am not a big insect fan. I showed my class a cicada picture and they almost passed out...LOL 1. Paper Mache insects

62. CBS News | Cicada Invasion Begins | May 27, 2004 16:59:37 (Photo AP) Scientists say this year s cicada visit offers researchers a rare opportunity to study the insect s impact on the nation s forests. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/12/tech/main616899.shtml

Home U.S. Iraq World ... FREE CBS News Video May 27, 2004 16:59:37 The Early Show CBS Evening News 48 Hours 60 Minutes ... Section Front E-mail This Story Printable Version Cicada Invasion Begins May 12, 2004 Cicada expert Gene Kritsky - a professor at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, who has written several books about the large, ravenous insects - shows off his collection. (Photo: AP) Scientists say this year's cicada visit offers researchers a rare opportunity to study the insect's impact on the nation's forests. Recent studies indicate cicadas are growing in numbers due in part to deforestation. (CBS/AP) Some folks count down the days until they can go home. Others keep an eye on the number of shopping days until Christmas. Gene Kritsky counts down the years between cicada invasions, and for him, the wait is almost over. The first cicada invasion in 17 years began Monday, as trillions of red-eyed insects began crawling their way above ground in 14 states and in Washington, D.C. Kritsky - a professor at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati - has been studying cicadas for decades and in an interview with the web site CicadaMania.org, admits that the arrival of the large, ravenous insects is a bit like a "an old friend coming to visit." To most people, especially farmers, it feels a lot more like being surrounded by an old foe.

63. Vergil's Photos: Insect Photographs: 17-year (Periodic) Cicadas The last time the bulbous, redeyed insects invaded the Eastern United States was I found this particular female cicada one late May evening in 2003 a full http://www.vergil.net/Pix/Insects/periodical.html

Insect and Spider Photographs All photos by Vergil, unless otherwise noted Periodic Cicada : One Summer Early Periodic cicadas emerge en masse from their earthen burrows every 17 years. The last time the bulbous, red-eyed insects invaded the Eastern United States was the summer of 1987, a time I've jokingly referred to as "the high point of my existence." The next living, squawking tsunami is scheduled for the summer of 2004. As in any invasion, an occasional unit will miss the starting pistol that launches the rest of the armada. I found this particular female cicada one late May evening in 2003 a full year early. Seemingly dazed, she walked slow circles around a pedastal lamp, pausing briefly to permit me a few pictures. Note : I recently recovered the full-size versions of these cicada photos from a damaged harddrive. Email me if you'd like to use them. Periodic (17-year) Cicadas : Summer 2004, Baltimore The following photographs feature "Brood X" Periodic Cicadas that have emerged during the summer of 2004 around Baltimore, MD. Main Photos Insect Galleries 17-yr Cicada

64. Reason It would be bad enough if enthusiasm for the insect invasion were limited to photo swapping, Brood X mugs and Tshirts, and cicada recipes. http://reason.com/sullum/052104.shtml

Jacob Sullum's Syndicated Column Child Labor Bad Taste Bug Bane Earlier Columns Related: FEC Chairman Bradley Smith explains his vote. A Reason interview May 21, 2004 Bug Bane Must we learn to love cicadas? Jacob Sullum If life gives you cicadas, make cicada pie . That seems to be the general attitude of the journalists and scientists chronicling the creepy, crawly, crunchy onslaught of the Brood X periodical cicada. This cheery attitude may be the only thing more annoying than the cicadas themselves. It would be bad enough if enthusiasm for the insect invasion were limited to photo swapping , Brood X mugs and T-shirts , and cicada recipes . But in addition to those manifestations of cicadamania, we've got high-minded lectures on the deeper meaning of the bugs festooning our homes, sidewalks, shrubs, and trees. The New York Times informs us that "the periodic nature of the cicadas, the way they come at about the span of a person's youth, makes them irresistible emotional mnemonics." To support this claim, the paper quotes Robert J. Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University, who says, "Cicadas are the sound of summer, of the year when you were young...It's the closest thing to a time machine you can get outside science fiction." Yet as I vacuum hundreds of cicada husks, squashed cicada corpses, and wriggling, half-dead cicadas off our house, our porch, our walkway, our deck, and our patio every morning, I am not instantly transported to my first year out of college, when love was new and dreams were vivid. My feeling is not so much wistfulness as disgust.

65. NPR Audio Roar Of The Cicada The Brood X cicadas have emerged, and residents in 15 states and Washington, D.C., are waking up in the morning to the roar of millions of insects looking for love. NPR's Melissa Block talks with http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=19

66. UMMZ Periodical Cicada Page Cicadas are flying, plantsucking insects of the Order Hemiptera; their closest relatives are leafhoppers, treehoppers, and fulgoroids. http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Periodical/Index.html

The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology Insect Division Periodical Cicada Page [What is a periodical cicada?] [Are periodical cicadas dangerous?] Magicicada life cycles] ... [To contact us] Note: Reports of Brood X cicadas are being sought from the general public. To report an emergence, please see the Cicada Links section below. What is a periodical cicada? Cicadas are flying, plant-sucking insects of the Order Hemiptera; their closest relatives are leafhoppers, treehoppers, and fulgoroids. Adult cicadas tend to be large (most are 25-50mm), with prominent wide-set eyes, short antennae, and clear wings held roof-like over the abdomen. Cicadas are probably best known for their conspicuous acoustic signals or "songs", which the males make using specialized structures called tymbals, found on the abdomen. All but a few cicada species have multiple-year life cycles, most commonly 2-8 years (de Boer and Duffels 1996). In most species, adults can be found every year because the population is not developmentally synchronized; these are often called "annual" cicada species. In contrast, the cicadas in a

67. Audubon: True Nature insect Opera After a 17year silence, cicadas will creep out of their underground chambers this spring to fill the Appalachian forests with a deafening noise. http://magazine.audubon.org/truenature/truenature0005.html

Insect Opera After a 17-year silence, cicadas will creep out of their underground chambers this spring to fill the Appalachian forests with a deafening noise. by T. Edward Nickens illustration by Jane Watkins I stepped toward the trees and quelled a flutter in my gut. I harbor few phobias, and none regarding insects. But a biologist friend had warned me about this. It's like a movie, he'd said. A horror film to most folks. If you go, you'd better really, really like bugs. A typical North Carolina Piedmont forest bordered the two-lane blacktopoaks and pines, mostly, nodding over American holly, sassafras, and greenbrier. And from trunk to topmost twig, every parcel of vertical real estate in sight crawled with cicadas. I moved gingerly from tree to tree, eyeball to compound eyeball. Hundreds of individuals sheathed each tree trunk; hundreds more clasped each branch. An inch long and plump as my finger, most of them clung unmoving to bark and leaf. Others marched slowly upward, lending to entire trees the illusion of movement. High in the canopy, thousands more careened from bough to leafy bough like legions of tiny bats. I could not rest my hand on a branch without squashing a few. I could not take a step without crushing a handful more. And I could barely hear myself think. The chorusing of the male cicadas was deafening, a hellish clatter of ticks and buzzes so loud it sounded as if the earth were groaning in pain. I began to yell, an unscientific gauge of the collective din. I heard my own voice only as the strain of screaming made my throat hurt.

68. Cicada Invasion Begins: Eastern U.S. Beset By Bugs The bugs belong to the largest group, or brood, of periodical cicadas—insects that spend most of their lives as nymphs, burrowed underground and sucking sap http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0329_040329_cicadas.html

Sign up for our free e-mail newsletter Also see: Today's Top Stories This Story E-mail this story Make the New Year a Smart Year Save 43 percent on National Geographic BONUS: Order online, get FREE collector's edition Cicada Invasion Begins: Eastern U.S. Beset by Bugs John Roach for National Geographic News Updated May 11, 2004 Brood X has arrived. Are you ready? Billions of black, shrimp-size bugs with transparent wings and beady red eyes are beginning to carpet trees, buildings, poles, and just about anything else vertical in a wide region of the U.S. The invasion zone stretches from the eastern seaboard west through Indiana and south to Tennessee. The message board on the Cicada Mania Web site, managed by Dan Century in Metuchen, New Jersey, was abuzz Tuesday with news of cicada sightings. Dan from Silver Spring, Maryland, wrote: "Our 60 year old house and the surrounding yard are now covered with them. It was quite amusing watching my wife (who has never experienced the cicada before) sprint to her car with an umbrella over her head." Angie in North Springfield, Maryland, wrote: "Their little carcasses are stuck to my walls. I swept away about a dozen off the front porch yesterday. I awoke this morning and one of my large Hosta plants in the back yard is covered."

69. Origami Insects (27K). cicada. grasshopper, One of the most recognizable insects, the grasshopper has powerful long legs adapted for leaping. Some http://www.paperfolding.com/insects/

Welcome to the Origami Insects page! Here you will see showcased some of the models from Robert Lang's wonderful and complex book, Origami Insects and Their Kin (ISBN 0486286029). I folded these models from 12-inch or 15-inch squares; don't try anything smaller! Each takes over an hour to fold, and some can take as long as four or five hours to create. The models in this book are extremely difficult, even for an advanced paperfolder. I would recommend this book only if you are ready for a very difficult origami challenge! . If you would like to get this book, there are a number of places on the Web from which you can mail-order it. Most places have it for about $10 US. It is available at Fascinating Folds and Amazon.com , as well as many other bookstores. Enjoy! The treehopper hides from predators by mimicking a thorn. The spotted ladybug is recognizable by its distinctive spotted pattern and feeds chiefly on aphids and other small insects. Often thought to be dangerous, the bite of the tarantula is painful but not highly venomous.

70. Flying Insect Sounds, Flying Insect Audio, Flying Insect Poster The shifting densities and rhythmic patterns of cicadas pulse in the foreground Longspurred Shieldback Katydid, Singing Insects of North America, 0.761MB, WAV. http://www.junglewalk.com/sound/insects-sounds.asp

JungleWalk - Flying Insect sound, Flying Insect audio Search by name (Browser must support frames) This page is meant for use with older browsers which do not support in-line frames. If you have a recent version of a browser which does support frames, you should use the more user-friendly 'frame version' of this site. Insects Flying Insects Mayflies Dragonflies ... Flying Insects - Misc. Other Favorites: Bird Sounds Check out these T-Shrit Galleries: Bird T-Shirt Cat T-Shirt Dog T-Shirt Dolphin T-Shirt ... Zebra T-Shirt Check out these Poster Galleries: Cat Posters Dog Posters Monkey Posters Wolf Posters ... Flying Insects Flying Insects - Misc. Stick Insect Source: US Fish and Wildlife This image is in public domain. Counts: Video:35 Audio:21 sites:19 images:32 Bladder Cicada Queensland Government - Environmental Protection Agency WAV Bladder Cicada Cicada The Longpoint schoolhouse WAV Cicada Buzz Cicada Environmental Program - Antonio Silveira Ribeiro dos Santos WAV Cicada sound clip Cicada Avisoft WAV Unidentified cicada species Cicada Environmental Program - Antonio Silveira Ribeiro dos Santos WAV Cicada sound clip Cicada ILoveWavs.com

71. Cicada In Chinese Folklore, Cultural Entomology Digest 3 cicada. It has brilliant red and black markings and is the only known cicada used as a blistering agent. Chou (9) says that Some of them insects in Chinese http://www.insects.org/ced3/cicada_chfolk.html

by Garland Riegel, ( bibliography Reproduced with permission from the Melsheimer Entomological Series (a publication of the Entomological Society of Pennsylvania.) Akihide Cicada Netsuke Chinese Jade Girde-Pendant Han Dynasty, 206-220 B.C. Chinese Tongue Amulet brown jade Han Dynasty, 206-220 B.C. Japanese Cicada Netsuke Some anthropologists and archaeologists have known for years that the ancient Chinese regarded cicadas as symbols of rebirth or immortality (4, 12, 16) in much the same way as the early Egyptians thought of the sacred scarab. Unlike the latter case, however, few western entomologists are aware of cicada symbolism used by the early Chinese. It is not mentioned in any English language entomology textbook of which I am aware. It is noted in Lucy Clausen's remarkable little book, Insect Fact and Folklore (10). While on the subject of medicine, Clausen (10) reports that "One of the most interesting and remarkable species of cicada in the Orient is Huechys sanguinea. There it is called `chu-ki,' and also "The red medicinal cicada." It has brilliant red and black markings and is the only known cicada used as a blistering agent." Chou (9) says that "Some of them [insects in Chinese pharmacy] have been used up to the present day, e.g. the exuviae of cicadas as an anti-febrile..." Needham (21) in speaking of alchemy and chemistry in ancient China says: "Several alchemists are mentioned in official historiography of the time. The Chin Shu (History of the Chin Dynasty)" stated "Then there was Shan Tao-Khai, a contemporary of the Central Asian missionary monk and thaumaturgist Fo-Thu-Teng (fl. +310); he achieved a cicada-like metamorphosis by ingesting pills." Needham (19) in discussing scientific thought in ancient China, tells of Ko Hung (fl. +325), the great alchemist in Chinese history." It was reported that "Someone said to Ko Hung:... How is it possible for us human beings to find a method which will give constant youth to those who must grow old, or to revive those who must die? And yet you say that (by the power of alchemy) you can cause a cicada to live for a year. ...Don't you think you are wrong?"

72. What Are Cicadas And How To Identify One Even though there are more than seventyfive species of cicadas found in North America this insect is often mistaken for the locust. http://msms.essortment.com/cicadaswhatare_rzkh.htm

What are cicadas and how to identify one What cicadas are and how to identify one. Even though there are more than seventy-five species of cicadas found in North America this insect is often mistaken for the locust. bodyOffer(24197) Written by Carolyn Hachquet BotOffer("gardening") Your are here: Pagewise Home Animals:Insects What are cicadas and how to identify one Treatment for chiggers How to identify leafhoppers

73. BBC NEWS | Americas | Trillions Of Cicadas To Plague US Trillions of cicadas in the eastern US are waking from a 17year slumber in what scientists expect to be the largest insect emergence on Earth. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3707599.stm

News Sport Weather World Service ... Programmes LANGUAGES Last Updated: Wednesday, 12 May, 2004, 14:26 GMT 15:26 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version Trillions of cicadas to plague US The last cicada swarm in the United States emerged in 1987 Trillions of cicadas in the eastern US are waking from a 17-year slumber in what scientists expect to be the largest insect emergence on Earth. The winged insects, which have been living underground and feeding on tree roots, will engage in a frenetic mating cycle before dying en masse in June. The bugs are harmless, but their mating call is very noisy. They are expected to swarm over 14 eastern states including Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, New York and Ohio. There are more than a dozen separate broods of 17-year cicadas, along with several 13-year varieties. Periodical cicadas are only found in the eastern United States. 'Bad smell' University of Indiana cicada expert Keith Clay says he expects this year's brood, Brood X, to be the largest. 17-YEAR CICADA LIFECYCLE Female lays eggs and dies soon after. Eggs hatch.

74. Insect Sounds feet. This particular one is about 1 long, small for Cicadas. (82K). This is a sample of the night insects at Peck s Lake. There http://www.naturesongs.com/insects.html

Insect Sounds Here are some insect sounds. Many of these I will have classified by family only, since I have not been able to find each of them so they can be classified. If you know what one is, or if you feel I've mis-classified one, please let me know. All are Windows wav files, and all have been edited for file size and clarity. More exacting sound collectors may contact me for larger, unedited versions of these sounds. Costa Rican Insect sounds are on the Costa Rica page, below. A Field Cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus ) sings to me from my compost pile - he loves it in there! Examination of the wave or spectrum reveals that each chirp is actually three sound pulses! (78K) An Acridid Grasshopper keeps me company while I sit observing at Tavasci Marsh in the early morning. This guy was a small "short-horned" grasshopper, which are characterized by their short antennae and severely sloping "foreheads". He was about 3/4 inch long. (125K) Pallid-winged Grasshoppers Trimerotropis pallidipennis ) are common Summer Grasshoppers around Arizona (and almost everywhere else). They're the small, brown and tan mottled grassshopper you probably used as bluegill bait when you were a child (didn't everyone?). This is the sound of their flight - it will be familiar to you, for sure! (105K)

75. Invasion Of The Teenage Insects Csmonitor.com Weeks before they emerge, cicada nymphs dig exit tunnels to the surface. The insects have spent about 16 years and 11 months underground, sucking on tree roots http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0511/p18s02-hfks.html

76. Economist.com | Entomology of cicadas. Gene Kritsky also studies the insects and has helped set up cicada Watch 2004. See also cicadaMania.org. Click Here! http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2647052

77. Economist.com | Entomology the next few days), Brood X of the 17year cicada will surface. The outbreak will be densest in the mid-west, around Indiana, where 3.5m insects per hectare http://www.economist.com/printedition/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=2647052

78. Periodical Cicadas In Kentucky Spray requirements will vary according to intensity of the outbreak, which range from a few cicadas in some areas to massive numbers of the insect in other http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/trees/ef446.htm

University of Kentucky Entomology EntFacts Information Sheets PERIODICAL CICADAS IN KENTUCKY by D. W. Johnson and L. H. Townsend Extension Entomologists Cicadas are distinctive insects with sucking mouthparts and two pairs of clear wings that are held roof-like over the body. They tend to stay in the tops of trees so we usually hear these noisy insects more than we see them. Several cicada species occur in Kentucky and all spend most of their multi-year life cycle underground where the immature stages feed on sap from tree roots. Periodical cicadas are those that have spectacular adult emergences, or "broods", which occur at predictable (13-year or 17-year) intervals. There are twelve 17-year broods, most in the northen states. Three 13-year broods occur mostly in the south and midwest. Broods are designated by Roman numerals. Most cicada species are not periodical so some adult cicadas can be seen every year. The adults are out for 2 to 6 weeks to mate and lay eggs, then they die. Periodical cicadas can cause significant injury to trees in orchards and nurseries, brambles and woody ornamental plants. To most Kentuckians, a brood emergence is no more than an interesting curiosity or temporary nuisance. They cannot sting and are not known to carry any plant diseases. While the mass emergence is striking, the racket produced by these insects also is impressive. Cicadas are the loudest of insects. Males produce their sounds with specialized abdominal structures called tymbals. The calls primarily are used to attract females but an "alarm" noise is produced if a cicada is caught. Apparently the long life cycles and synchronized emergences of periodical cicadas allow them to escape natural control by predators that range from birds to spiders to snakes. In emergence years, cicada numbers can be so high that predators apparently can eat all they want without significantly reducing the population. Consequently, predators cannot build up in response because these cicadas are available as food only once every 13 or 17 years.

79. Their Back! The 17 Year Cicadas Are Coming This Year Cicadas are large, plantfeeding insects. Yes, the birds have their fill of cicadas, since this insect is a rather cumbersome flier. http://www.emmitsburg.net/gardens/articles/frederick/2004/cicadas.htm

They're back! The 17 year cicadas are coming this year Charlie Metz Frederick County Master Gardener Program In case you haven't heard yet, the cicadas are coming this year. In the next few months you will be hearing about the impending emergence of the 17 year cicada, mistakenly called 17 year locusts. If you don't remember the last outbreak, or if you are new to this area, you need to know a few facts about this periodic phenomenon. Cicadas are large, plant-feeding insects. They have clear wings and are known for making a very loud noise. When tens of thousands of cicadas are singing at the same time the sound is quite loud and annoying. Be prepared for about 2 to 4 weeks of this sound beginning in May. Although it is not entirely clear why this insect comes out every 17 years, scientists believe it has something to do with survival. Since billions of cicadas emerge at about the same time, it is impossible for birds and other predators to make a dent in the population. Yes, the birds have their fill of cicadas, since this insect is a rather cumbersome flier. But how much can one bird eat in a month?

80. Insect Order Homoptera - Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids - Cirrus Digital Imaging Closeup photos of insects within the order Homoptera, including cicadas, hoppers, aphids, and scale-like insects. Life cycle, habitat, food sources described. http://www.cirrusimage.com/homoptera.htm

Ins ect Order Homoptera Cicadas, Planthoppers, Aphids and Scale-like Insects Click a caption for larger image Probably Polymia obtecta Family: Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers) Flatid Planthopper Family: Flatidae Uroleucon Species Aphids Partridge Scolops Scolops perdix Annual Cicada Tibicen chloromera Cirrus Home Bees Beetles Bugs ... Wildflowers Cirrus Digital Imaging

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