{"id":10135,"date":"2019-08-07T04:26:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=10135"},"modified":"2024-05-05T07:42:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T14:42:18","slug":"check-for-first-instar-periodical-cicada-nymphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/check-for-first-instar-periodical-cicada-nymphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Check for first instar periodical cicada nymphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been about six weeks since the emergence of <a href=\"\/cicadas\/brood-viii-will-emerge-in-2019-in-pennsylvania-ohio-and-west-virginia\/\">Brood VIII<\/a> in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Oklahoma. Now (first week of August) is a good a time as any to check for periodical cicada nymphs that have hatched from eggs laid in branches. Once they hatch they&#8217;ll find their way to the ground, where they&#8217;ll find and begin feeding on roots for the next 17 years. <\/p>\n<p>Look on branches where cicada laid their eggs. <\/p>\n<p>An illustration of egg nests (Marlatt 1907 Egg Nest Detail):<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/egg-nest.webp\" alt=\"Marlatt 1907 Egg Nest Detail\" width=\"800\" height=\"642\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/egg-nest.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/egg-nest-300x241.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/egg-nest-768x616.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A nymph on a branch with adult male finger for comparison:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JT-Nymph-1.jpg\" alt=\"Periodical Cicada Nymph\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JT-Nymph-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JT-Nymph-1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Close up:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JT-Nymph-2.jpg\" alt=\"Periodical Cicada Nymph\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JT-Nymph-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JT-Nymph-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another close up:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JT-Nymph-3.jpg\" alt=\"Periodical Cicada Nymph\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JT-Nymph-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JT-Nymph-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been about six weeks since the emergence of Brood VIII in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Oklahoma. Now (first week of August) is a good a time as any to check for periodical cicada nymphs that have hatched from eggs laid in branches. Once they hatch they&#8217;ll find their way to the ground, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,2,674,289,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eggs","category-magicicada","category-nymphs","category-ovipositing","category-periodical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}