Get ready for another season of cicada stories.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91293274/cicadas-are-about-to-take-over-heres-what-you-should-know
#Cicadas
#NewSpecies!
New cicada from #australia just landed:
Yoyetta fumea
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D60217-CC5D-BA7B-1787-682BFF522562
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5590.2.1
#Zootaxa #YoyettaFumea
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #hemiptera #bugs #cicadas
If you're not sure which cicada you're hearing, you can record them with the #iNaturalist app and a keen entomologist will tell you which species you've got. It will be interesting to see how much further the clapping cicada spreads as the climate warms, and how our local cicadas deal with this, and whether any other northern cicadas make there way down here.
Along the New Brighton coast and only since about 2016, we've also got the clapping cicada, *Amphipsalta cingulata*. When Thursday's Waitangi Day hikoi reached New Brighton Pier, I heard a distinctly different cicada calling. It's got a pulsing, ascending rattle. It has spread down into the South Island from the North Island this century, presumably in response to the warming climate.
https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/342370-Amphipsalta-cingulata
#insects #nz #cicadas #Ōtautahi #Christchurch
4/5
In Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills, but not Christchurch city, there's the chirping cicada *Amphipsalta strepitans*. I informally call it the maraca cicada because it reminds me of someone shaking a maraca. I don't yet understand why this species is not in the city itself. It cuts out at around the edge of the housing in the Port Hills.
https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/342372-Amphipsalta-strepitans
#insects #nz #cicadas #Ōtautahi #Christchurch
3/5
In Christchurch city and the Port hills and Banks Peninsula, we've got the Kihikihi Wawā or Chorus Cicada, *Amphipsalta zelandica*. Its calls sound like pulsing static. These are the cicadas that make a cacophany from the trees of the botanic gardens and Hagley Park. They are abundant and all of them singing together is *loud*.
https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/81881-Amphipsalta-zelandica
#insects #nz #cicadas #Ōtautahi #Christchurch
2/5
Ōtautahi-Christchurch is finally starting to feel like summer, with the cicadas turning up the volume from the trees.
On Thursday I was reminded that we've now got three large, loud cicada species calling in the city. They all sound distinctly different when you get your ear in.
One is a recent arrival from the North Island and so far is only along the coast of the city.
I've put recordings of each in the following posts.
#sounds from #nature made with #electronic #synthesis and #field #recordings
#serial #music and #vintage #synths
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#bandcamp #BandcampFriday #discount #music #electronicmusic #fedimusic #Fediverse #mastomusic #mastodon
Holy shit y'all. I have THE BEST news. After coordinating with Midwest Environmental Advocates, The University of Wisconsin Entomology Department, Gene Kritzky, Jessee Smith, and others, we were able to successfully petition the #Wisconsin DNR to make the right choice and protect the #Cicadas!
If you're as pissed as I am please call the DNR Spokesperson at 608-267-2773. I believe their name is James Dick. Tell them that #Cicadas are animals, and do deserve to be protected under existing state laws.
Edit: that number is disconnected and James Dick doesn't appear to work for the DNR anymore. I am currently working a different angle. See my more recent posts for an update.
The #Wisconsin DNR is fully abdicating their legal responsibilities and is actively refusing to stop poachers from taking animals from state parks. They're hiding behind the non-existence of an "insect clause" in their laws to say that #Cicadas are not protected, because they are not animals. HORSE SHIT. The Wisconsin #DNR is a disgrace to all conservationists, and they should be ashamed.
I just got off the call with the #Wisconsin DNR tip line and I am so upset. They are claiming that it is not a violation to harvest #Cicadas from state parks because there is no clause in their laws preventing people from harvesting insects on state property.
I pointed out that they don't need an insect specific clause, because #insects are considered animals, and their law clearly states that animals may not be removed without a permit.
If you care about #nature, #cicadas, #wildlife, or #conservation please boost this thread. Time is of the essence. Calling the DNR Violation tip line will only take a few minutes of your time, and can help these vulnerable animals in a critical time of need.
1-800-847-9367
Hey Fedi I need your help! People are illegally harvesting threatened #Cicadas species on a massive scale at Big Foot Beach State Park in Wisconsin and taking them to sell in wet markets. The park staff are aware, as is the local DNR Conservation Warden, but they're not taking action. Can you please take a few minutes and call the DNR Violation Hotline? 1-800-847-9367. Say that you were told about people illegally harvesting cicadas at Big Foot Beach State Park in Lake Geneva #WI. Please Boost!
If you are living in the area of a Cicada brood emergence, and you care about your lawn, the absolute best thing you can do right now is *not* mow your lawn.
The cicadas use tall grass to molt (I have tons on my lawn now) and when they leave their shells behind they act as a powerful fertilizer. You WANT them to use your lawn.
