Periodical cicada time lapse

[solidrockpix]

The Periodical Cicada Brood XIX has been out in full force here in Durham, NC. Last week I attempted my first time lapse. I learned a lot from doing it and hope to do more in the future. I put it together in Quicktime Pro with some audio of the cicadas during the day. I originally shot 2700 pictures over a 7.5 hour time period, one every 10 seconds. I ended up editing it down to around 1500 because there were some times when the cicada just didn't move or change.

The video is here:

I also have a blog post about it and some still pictures of the cicadas here:
solidrockpix.blogspot.com/

I hope you will take a look and let me know what you think! Also, feel free to pass the link along to anyone whom you think might like it.

Thanks!

[saturniidave]

Superb, well done! That noise must drive you up the wall though, how many days does it last?
Dave

[solidrockpix]

It took about a week for the noise to really get started since the males outer shells have to harden first. So its been noisy for about a week or so so far. They should be hanging around for about a month more from what I understand. They only make the noise during the day, not at night so its pretty tolerable.
Thanks for checking it out!
--mark--

[ckswank]

Very nicely done. I remember an emergence of these in central Illinois back about 1970 or so. Have never seen (or heard) anything like it since. Thanks for sharing it!

Charlie

[bugdude94]

I eperienced the periodicles... NOT FUN! the only fun thing was going in the yard with a baseball bat, shaking a tree and pop about 30 of 'em with one swing! does any one else do that? I guess I'm weird

[ckswank]

Yep! That's pretty weird!

[bugdude94]

Jul 23, 2011 19:36:52 GMT -8 ckswank said:

Yep! That's pretty weird!

haha! weird but fun.

[anthony]

A lot of effort to do this, very well done.