Chris Simon

Aficionado of the natural history of organisms and molecules.

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

Media Faux Pas. The attached sheet has been very useful to the journalists who write about periodical cicadas. I first posted it during Brood X. Attached is a revised version. Feel free to share. #cicadas #magicicada#periodical cicadas

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

Saw this Dr. Sammy cicada song during Brood X but it is well worth reposting, https://t.co/oKifVvvezr

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

@MyHaploidHeart Yes. Most of them do. There are occasional other eye colors including the ones below plus, white, blue, and gray.

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

Interesting article Jessica!!!

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

And please photograph dug-up nymphs and later adults newly emerged from the same ground and report to iNaturalist or CicadaSafari

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

If you dig cicada nymphs up in your garden, take note of whether they have black patches or not, record the date, and then record the date of the big emergence nights.

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

Question: We know that periodical cicadas eyes turn red up to a year before emergence, their holes can appear up to a month before emergence. But when do the black patches on the thorax form? #magicicada #cicadas #citizenscience @cicadamania

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

Also please photograph dug-up nymphs and later the newly emerged adults from the same ground for iNaturalist or CicadaSafari!!!

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

If you dig cicada nymphs up in your garden, take note of whether they have black patches or not, record the date, and then record the date of the big emergence nights.

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

Has anyone else seen large amounts of fungus? This suggests that this population came out 3 to 4 weeks ago! This is very early based on emergence reports on iNaturalist and CicadaSafari.

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

@ImperfectFunGuy @cicadamania @hyphaltip Wow, surprised to see the fungus appear so early! When did those cicadas emerge????

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

Question: We know that periodical cicadas eyes turn red up to a year before emergence, their holes can appear up to a month before emergence. But when do the black patches on the thorax form? #magicicada #cicadas #citizenscience @cicadamania

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

Just released today from https://t.co/LllECUrajH answers to some questions about this year’s joint emergence of periodical cicada Broods XIX and XIII. Listen on Tumble's website: https://t.co/AESJuZE1RO
https://t.co/3WZiPOKdR1 and https://t.co/UYXYYvTyXk

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

Oops, forgot the hashtags #cicadas #Magicicada #13-17-year cicadas @cicadamania

[Chris Simon @CicadaScience]

Article published in the Conversation today on the joint emergence of periodical cicada Broods XIX and XXIII

https://t.co/2TPeAdMg2u

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Asperitas are ominous-looking clouds occurring mostly with Stratocumulus and Altocumulus. These ones have been photographed over Gorham, New Hampshire on April 23, 2023

[📷 Crystal Lee]

[Cicada Mania... We Love Cicadas @cicadamania]

RIP Megatibicen grossus/auletes.

[Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer]

I re-read the original BUCKy paper by Ané et al, probably for the first time in 10 years. I forgot how creative and original it was, and how many of the ideas in it have simply been rediscovered by others (including me).

https://t.co/tcg0eiZlTY