Why another cicada website?
This website has been created to act as a repository for information regarding annual and periodical cicadas found in the Mid-Atlantic area of the United States. This area includes Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Information such as life history information, distributional information for each species, color photos of males and females of each species, call files for each species, as well as calling phenology and temperature ranges during calling have been collected for species occurring in this geographic area. The purpose is to provide interested people, students and teachers the needed resources to understand the distribution and life histories of our local cicadas. What is the difference between a periodical cicada and annual cicada? Cicadas in our area can easily be divided into two groups according to when they occur; those that appear every year (or annually) from the end of June to the middle of October and those that d
