17 Year Brood Cicada?

Does anyone know if this is a 17 year cicada? I'm not really sure how to tell and haven't researched too much yet, but thought I'd ask here first.

Either way, this guy came from O'Shaugnessy Res. in Central OH over the weekend and would certainly make a tasty treat for a bass with a big bite. I'll be tying some up ASAP for sure! (Didn't have my macro lens with me, but was still able to get pretty close).

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It's hard to believe it will be another 17 years before they emerge again.

Nice pic. I hope someone can tell you (us) if in fact it is a 17 year cicada.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Cicada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada

There are about 2,500 species of cicada around the globe, and many remain unclassified.

Magicicada is the genus of the 13- and 17- year periodical cicadas of eastern North America. These insects display a unique combination of long life cycles, periodicity, and mass emergences. They are sometimes called "seventeen-year locust"s, but they are not locusts; locusts belong to the order Orthoptera.[1]

So yes it is a Cicada but I don't know if it is the 17 year variety. Check out the Wikipeda site, they have some good photos.


Larry :D ---sagefisher---

we have a lot of those kind here and we have them every year. those definitely are not the 17 year cicadas

The 17 year cicada has orange eyes. We had a large hatch in northern Indiana 4 years ago. They are very noisey too.

fishbum

I've been told on a local site that the 17 year cicadas are indeed orange and black. Oh well, still good fun I suppose!
And if you plan on tying any up, here is the under-side:
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Wild, we had our 14 year cicada invasion back in 2004. It was about 2000 cicadas per person ratio! So you'd know if it was 17 year! But there are always cicadas out, and they look like that too here in Baltimore. We find them laying like that on the ground still alive. If you're lucky you'll run into a cicada killer wrestling with one.:cool:

In Kentucky there are 10 broods of cicadas. The County agricultute office in Kentucky has a brochure that lists where the broods live, and when , what year, they hatch (not all are 17 yr variety). Perhaps your county agent has a similar publication for every ones state.

It is worth checking out. All of the cicadias are still big bugs and quite a meal for a fish.

Tom

The "Dog Days" Cicada's happen every year,About this time. We did just have one of the 13 yr periodical's that ended in this area mid last month...I and many of my friends did not have much luck fishing during it with Cicada pattern's...We did much better ignoring them as it seemed the fish did...

During the 2 17 yr. hatches I've witnessed here, These have not been Orange...but a very peacock like Iridescent type of green with huge black eyes and at least twice the size of the recent Orange 13 yr periodical's.

The Wikipedia article mentioned that in many countries people eat the Cicada as a source of food. Maybe someone would like to come up with a Spam and Cicada recipe? ;)

Larry :rolleyes: ---sagefisher---

I have worked for orkin for about ten years. That is an annual. The 17 year is smaller and has reddish to orange eyes. We had a hatch of them two years ago I think and it was loud.

As other have already said this is the "annual", locally know as the "August" cicada. They are much bigger than the 13 and 17 year varieties.

Here's some source of info you might find interesting

http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/

http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fa...as/Periodical/

We just finished up the Brood XIV cycle down our way.

Check put the links for more cicada info than you ever wanted!

As Panfisha mentioned, you should see a cicada killer tangling with one. Their big and nasty looking (even more so than the cicadas themselves) but mostly harmless.

Last summer I kept finding dead cicadas on my patio then I finally saw the culprit in action. Once the cicada killer started digging the sand out from under the pavers I got rid of it. Amazing how much burrowing this thing did.

In Central KY in June we had a hatch of the 17 locust.

The attached picture is one of 10's of thousands that we had to contend with. When they started to die, after their cycle was completed, I could literally sweep them into a pile and shovel them into a bucket. All that was left of the locust were their wings, head, and body casing, because the birds would eat what they considered the good part.

It got really interesting when you mowed the lawn. You were constantly being attacked by these creatures and lots of them at a time. At first I thought they hated the mower and was taking out revenge. After looking up the habits of this locust I wished they had been attacking me. It seems that the "mating call" of the locust is a humming noise, much like the mower. I still get the creeps thinking about that.

[QUOTE=rst;245686] After looking up the habits of this locust I wished they had been attacking me. It seems that the "mating call" of the locust is a humming noise, much like the mower. I still get the creeps thinking about that.
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Now THAT is funny!