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September 28, 2022

A short Neotibicen season in New Jersey. Male teneral Neotibicen tibicen.

Filed under: Cryptotympanini | Molting | Neotibicen — Tags: — Dan @ 7:30 pm

We had a short Neotibicen cicada season in New Jersey in 2022.

I’m used to finding molting Neotibicen cicadas between the first week of July and the last week of August. This year they started emerging in the first week of July, but the last one I found was on August 2nd.

I wonder if the short season was due to the major drought or heat waves New Jersey experienced this summer.

Here are some photos of a freshly-molted/teneral(soft) Morning cicada:

Male freshly-molted Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. Ventral view. Note the opercula.
Neotibicen tibicen 2022 Male

Male freshly-molted Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. Side view.
Neotibicen tibicen 2022 Male Side View

Male freshly-molted Neotibicen tibicen tibicen with folded wings:
Neotibicen tibicen 2022 Folded wings

More from the 2022 season: Neotibicen tibicen tibicen female cicada molting, Neotibicen lyricen found in central New Jersey, and Neotibicen linnei in Northern New Jersey.

Neotibicen tibicen tibicen female cicada molting

Filed under: Cryptotympanini | Molting | Neotibicen — Tags: — Dan @ 7:12 pm

A Neotibicen tibicen tibicen female cicada molting. Also known as Morning or Swamp cicada. 2022, Central New Jersey.

Neotibicen tibicen 2022 Female molting

Neotibicen tibicen 2022 Female

March 27, 2022

Neotibicen lyricen molting in New Jersey July 2021

Filed under: Cryptotympanini | Molting | Neotibicen | Nymphs | Teneral | United States — Dan @ 5:39 am

Here are some Neotibicen lyricen molting in New Jersey July 2021.

Rich caramel eyes; blues & pinks in pronotal collar, legs, and mesonotum; green wings (that will stay green) and orange abdomen.

Neotibicen lyricen New Jersey July 2021

Neotibicen lyricen New Jersey July 2021

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Molting Neotibicen tibicen cicadas

Filed under: Cryptotympanini | Molting | Neotibicen | Teneral | United States — Tags: — Dan @ 5:10 am

Here’s some photos of Molting Neotibicen tibicen tibicen cicadas taken in New Jersey in July of 2021.

Neotibicen tibicen tibicen July 2021

Neotibicen tibicen tibicen July 2021

Neotibicen tibicen tibicen July 2021

Neotibicen tibicen tibicen July 2021

Neotibicen tibicen tibicen July 2021

Neotibicen tibicen tibicen July 2021

April 18, 2021

Periodical cicada nymphs emerging at night

Filed under: Brood XIII | Magicicada | Molting | Nymphs | Periodical — Tags: — Dan @ 5:29 am

One of the most fun periodical cicada experiences is watching thousands of nymphs emerge from the ground at night, crawl to the nearest vertical surface (hopefully a tree) and begin to molt.

This is a video by Roy Troutman from 2007 of the Brood XIII emergence, specifically in Ryerson Woods in Illinois:

Observing magicicada emergence at Ryerson Woods from Roy Troutman on Vimeo.

Here’s a time-lapse video, also by Roy, of a cicada nymph molting:

Magicicada nymph molting from Roy Troutman on Vimeo.

March 29, 2020

Molting & Molted cicadas – Brood II Magicicada from Metuchen, New Jersey (2013)

Filed under: Brood II | Magicicada | Molting | Photos & Illustrations — Dan @ 10:14 am

This is a series of molting and recently molted teneral (soft) cicadas from the 2013 Brood II Magicicada emergence in Metuchen, NJ.

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Other galleries in this series:

March 22, 2020

Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García, part 4

Filed under: Cryptotympanini | Ivan Garcia | Lyristes | Molting | Spain | Tibicen — Tags: , — Dan @ 11:14 am

Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García. Spain.

Tibicen plebejus or Lyristes plebejus, depending on who you ask.

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Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García, part 3

Filed under: Cryptotympanini | Ivan Garcia | Lyristes | Molting | Spain | Tibicen — Tags: , — Dan @ 11:09 am

Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García. Spain.

Tibicen plebejus or Lyristes plebejus, depending on who you ask.

Skip to Part 1, Part 2, or Part 4.

21 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

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Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García, part 2

Filed under: Cryptotympanini | Ivan Garcia | Lyristes | Molting | Spain | Tibicen — Tags: , — Dan @ 11:02 am

Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García. Spain.

Tibicen plebejus or Lyristes plebejus, depending on who you ask.

Skip to Part 1, Part 3, or Part 4.

11 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

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Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García, part 1

Filed under: Cryptotympanini | Ivan Garcia | Lyristes | Molting | Spain | Tibicen — Tags: , — Dan @ 10:57 am

Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García. Spain.

Tibicen plebejus or Lyristes plebejus, depending on who you ask.

Skip to Part 2, Part 3, or Part 4.

01 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

02 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

03 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

04 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

05 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

06 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

07 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

08 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

09 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

10 Tibicen plebejus molt sequence, photos by Iván Jesus Torresano García

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