Tibicen sp., Dog day cicada, photographed in Lowndes county, Georgia (24 June 2013).
On Monday, I posted a photo-montage video of a Tibicen cicada undergoing ecdysis. The video was a composite of photographs taken during the process of molting, accompanied by textual descriptions of the ecdysis process. This post presents video of another cicada undergoing the same molting process, only it’s a time-lapsed video recorded and edited directly on my iPhone, which totally blows my mind. Technology! As with the previous cicada, I suspect it may have been Tibicen auletes, the Northern dusk-singing cicada, but I can’t confirm that identification. This is currently being tagged as Tibicen sp. (unidentified Tibicen cicadas and the like).
Here’s the video, and I hope you like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWlsJ95bGVI
So, this was shot on my iPhone using a nifty app appropriately named TimeLapse. It worked like a champ, though it was tough getting the phone itself set up. I don’t have a tripod for my phone (!!!!), so I used a chair, some books, a brick, and a piece of wood to prop the iPhone up for the shot. As for editing the video, I used iMovie on the iPhone. The soundtrack is background music I composed in October of 2007 called “Stance, sans Fuzz,” improvised and recorded with Garageband on my MacBook. All in all, a fun little experiment in timelapse recording, something I’ve never done before.
Next on Dust Tracks: I’m not sure, but I do know it won’t be a cicada!
~ janson
Filed under: Georgia, Invertebrates, Videographs Tagged: Tibicen sp.
