Eeka reports that when she played a YouTube video with cicada sounds really loudly, a cicada outside responded.

1. Make jewelery out of it.
2-101. Repeat.

Nathaniel Davis posts an up-close photo of a 17-year cicada and compiles a gallery of cicada photos.

Feed them to pheasants, of course.

Massachusetts Cicadas, now featuring a map showing the locations of those Brood XIV 17-year cicadas (not much there yet, since their awakening is still three days away).

Via Robert David Sullivan.

It's about time.