{"id":10516,"date":"2020-03-01T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2020-03-01T09:12:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T16:12:35","slug":"my-magicicada-photos-from-1996-brood-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/my-magicicada-photos-from-1996-brood-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"My Magicicada photos from 1996, Brood II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Magicicada photos from 1996, Brood II. These were taken with disposable cameras and scanned in with a flatbed scanner also from the 1990s. They&#8217;re mostly from Metuchen NJ. Otherwise they&#8217;re from Westfield NJ. <\/p>\n<p>At this point in time I was not as interested in cicadas as I am now. Back in 1996 they were more of a novelty, but over time my obsession grew.<\/p>\n<p>Magicicada adults in a jar:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cicadas-jar.jpg\" alt=\"Magicicadas in a jar\" width=\"500\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cicadas-jar.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cicadas-jar-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jar2.jpg\" alt=\"Magicicada in a jar\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jar2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jar2-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Magicicada exuvia in a jar:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jar.gif\" alt=\"Magicicada exuiva in a jar\" width=\"255\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scenes from a cicada wedding:<\/p>\n<p>My friends David &#038; Claire were married in an outdoor wedding ceremony in Westfield, NJ, at the peak of the Brood II emergence. No one freaked out &#8212; in fact everyone seemed to enjoy it, especially the kids.<\/p>\n<p>The bride and groom, Claire and David:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/couple.jpg\" alt=\"David &amp; Claire\" width=\"228\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/couple.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/couple-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A cicada creeping up a wedding chair leg during the ceremony:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wedding.jpg\" alt=\"A cicada creeping up a wedding chair leg during the ceremony\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10521\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Video from the wedding:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQg9J_tnvug\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was even calling them &#8220;locusts&#8221; back then. Gee wiz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Magicicada photos from 1996, Brood II. These were taken with disposable cameras and scanned in with a flatbed scanner also from the 1990s. They&#8217;re mostly from Metuchen NJ. Otherwise they&#8217;re from Westfield NJ. At this point in time I was not as interested in cicadas as I am now. Back in 1996 they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brood-ii","category-magicicada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516","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=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}