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Post by solidrockpix on May 18, 2011 9:42:59 GMT -8
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! |
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Post by saturniidave on May 18, 2011 10:50:54 GMT -8
Superb, well done! That noise must drive you up the wall though, how many days does it last?
Dave
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Post by solidrockpix on May 18, 2011 11:32:34 GMT -8
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--
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Post by ckswank on May 18, 2011 21:16:29 GMT -8
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
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Post by bugdude94 on Jul 23, 2011 11:48:59 GMT -8
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  |
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Post by ckswank on Jul 23, 2011 19:36:52 GMT -8
Yep! That's pretty weird!
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Post by bugdude94 on Jul 24, 2011 12:25:56 GMT -8
Yep! That's pretty weird! haha! weird but fun.  |
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Post by anthony on Oct 1, 2011 5:07:51 GMT -8
A lot of effort to do this, very well done.
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