This book summarizes the cicada literature, providing a means for easy access to information previously published on a particular species or to allow researchers the ability to locate similar work that has been published on other species. A total of 2,591 references are included in the bibliography.

Cicadas are large, loud insects that spend their nymphal stages underground until they crawl out, climb a tree trunk, and emerge as winged insects. The adult insects emerge on a 1-year (annual) and 13- or 17-year (periodical) cadence. Yearly emergences are consistent and plentiful in certain places East to West and become a dependable "hatch." Species from carp and smallmouth bass on eastern rivers to trout on fabled waters such as Utah's Green River or Pennsylvania's Spring Creek grow fat on this annual feast. But the feeding frenzy kicks into high in most years when a brood of periodical cicadas emerge in their predictable range.

There are 170 species and 21 subspecies found in continental North America north of Mexico. The species represent 16 genera from eight tribes in three subfamilies within the family Cicadidae.

University of Michigan. Museum of Zoology. Miscellaneous publications ; no. 121.

U.S. Department of agriculture. Division of entomology. Bulletin, no. 8
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Covers the history and taxonomy of the periodical cicadas in the North America. Includes an extensive bibliography, tables, shaded range maps for the eastern and midwestern U.S., dot maps for Indiana, descriptions, illustrations, life history info, and extensive historical accounts.

Rand McNally Patterns of life series

Every seventeen or thirteen years, millions of cicadas rise from the soil in the eastern United States to fill the air with their noisy song. But 2024 is a unique cicada year: periodical cicada Broods XIII and XIX will emerge simultaneously. The last time these two broods emerged together, Thomas Jefferson was president of the United States.

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