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Description: Video by Jean Rooney. Mrs. Roony takes us around the outside of her home on Cape Cod during the Brood XIV periodical cicada emergence. At round 3:57 you can hear the distinct call of a high-pitched M. septendecim. These distinctly highpitched cicadas are a phenominon that has been noted this year. It was a windy day and you can here the wind being picked up via the microphone. Note: This video was enlarged and some resolution quality may have been lost.
Description: This is a brief video slideshow of a Periodical cicada going through the ecdysis (molting) process. It takes approximiately 2 hours for the process to be completed. During this time, the periodical cicada is extremely vulnerable and sometimes the process doesn't go so well. Anything can happen during this time. For instance other periodical cicadas can trample over this one to try to get to other spots to molt which causes damage - predation which most often leads to death and deformities which can result from a myriad of reasons.
Description: A photo slide show compilation of Massachusetts Cicadas' trip to Cape Cod to study and map the distribution of Brood XIV Periodical Cicada Emergence. This slide show is of the early emergence. Other videos will soon follow this one.
Description: A photo slide show compilation of Massachusetts Cicadas' trip to the mid-west to study and map the distribution ofBrood XIII Periodical Cicada Emergence. Brood XIII appeared in 2007 in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa.
More Work with M. septendecim.
Description: In our continuing experiments with the periodical cicadas from Brood XIII at Jubilee College State Park, this videos shows a Magicicada cooperating fully and was singing happily. Now it's just a matter of sitting relaxing, relaxing and gathering the data.