Cicada's on the Web

CICADA WEBSITES AND RESOURCES

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Websites

Cicada Mania - The oldest and best-known general website for cicada enthusiasts. Facts about cicada including 13 and 17 year broods, annual and international cicada species.

Magicicada - established to solicit and organize distribution records for periodical cicada broods from the public.Information about period cicada and cicada broods

Cicada Central - established as a clearinghouse for research on world Cicadidae.This site is designed to be a clearinghouse for scientific information about cicadas. 

Masschusettes Cicada - extensive site on New England cicadas, collecting techniques, etc.Cicada biology and distribution, behaviors and systematics. Basically anything pertaining to the life cycle of cicadas that have been observed by the site author or information that has been reported or learned through established literature.

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Australian Museum: Cicadas - The drone of cicadas is one of Sydney's most recognizable sounds of summer. Cicadas are the loudest insects in the world and there are more than 200 species in Australia.

Periodical Cicada Page - University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology: Insect Division

 

Cicada in Illinois - University of Illinois Extension

 

Cicada's of the Mid-Atlantic - Help us track and map out the occurrence of the 17 year Brood I Periodical Cicada in the Mid Atlantic area.

Cicada of Florida - University of Florida Department of Entomology

 

Resources

Insect Singers - Song recordings and information on acoustically signaling insects, especially cicadas of the United States and Canada.

Songs of Insects – a companion website for a book of the same name, contains an online identification guide for songs.

How Stuff Works: Cicadas - How Stuff Works is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.

Encyclopedia Britannica: cicada - Articles from Britannica encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.

Wikipedia: Cicada - An online free encyclopedia. 

National Geographic: Cicadas - Learn all you wanted to know about cicadas with pictures, videos, photos and facts. 

For Kids

Origami Cicada -  Make your own Origami Cicada.

Singing Cicada Craft - Create your own Singing Cicada Craft. 

Seventeen Uses for a Dead Cicada - As the sound and the flurry fade, we're left with dead bugs. Here are 17 things to do with them.