The spring season marks the longawaited arrival of the Magicicada Brood X periodical cicadas The Magicicada cicadas are emerging in great numbers after spending 17 years underground The following websites offer information about the periodical cicadas and other cicadas as well The first 1 site from the University of Michigans Museum of Zoology provides a variety of short information entries about periodical cicadas including photos and song clips Hosted by the College of Mount St Joseph the Cicada Watch 2 website invites visitors to report an emergence The Cicada Watch site also contains answers to frequently asked questions as well as teaching resources a basic emergence timeline and a list of periodical cicada events The third 3 site Cicada Mania was created by cicada enthusiast Dan Century to disseminate a wide assortment of cicadarelated news and information Cicada Mania links to articles photos related sites and more The fourth 4 site hosted by University of Connecticut is designed to be a center for the exchange of scientific information concerning cicadas of the world This Cicada Central website links to reprints for scientific literature concerning cicadas a list of cicada researchers from around the world a list of world cicada tribes and more Created by cicada enthusiast Lester W Daniels the fifth 5 site provides natural history information about cicadas as well as great annotated photos The sixth 6 site from the University of Maryland Newsdesk offers cicada information recipes photos and even a media hotline The final 7 site from Salt in the Sandbox is a neat inquirybased educational cicada site for children