Neotibicen tibicen is the winner

There was a lot of ways to slice and count the data, but it looks like Neotibicen tibicen is our 2023 annual cicada winner.

Is there a chance another annual or proto-periodical cicada is more plentiful in North America? Yes of course, but in areas where people are using the iNaturalist app most frequently, which is likely not isolated or out of the way areas, Neotibicen tibicen was most plentiful. Millions of uncounted Platypedia putnami emerging around every odd and inaccessible stream in the west, maybe,

Methodology:
1) Downloaded Research Grade data from the 2023 North American Annual Cicadas project.
2) Combined sub-species with species counts. In other words, I totaled Neotibicen tibicen + Neotibicen tibicen tibicen + Neotibicen tibicen australis to get Neotibicen tibicen.
3) The 1 species per user + location column reduces the number by one species per user per location. In other words, if I submitted 50 Neotibicen tibicens in Edison, New Jersey, it only counts as 1 (one).

Posted on March 6, 2024 05:21 AM by cicadamania