{"id":10599,"date":"2020-03-07T05:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T12:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2020-03-07T05:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T12:52:07","slug":"magicicada-nymphs-found-by-elias-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/magicicada-nymphs-found-by-elias-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Magicicada Nymphs found by Elias, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you every wondered what cicadas look like when they&#8217;re underground? Elias Bonaros did some digging and took these photos of first and second instar Magicicada periodical cicadas on a warm winter day (March 21, 2010). Magicicadas have 5 instars, or phases of development. Each phase has a slightly different appearance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis is a probable second instar nymph of Magicicada septendecim (Periodical cicada) from the 2008 Brood XIV emergence. Dug up from beneath an oak tree. It was living approximately 4-6 inches from the ground surface. Temperature 70 degrees.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elias-magicicada-2nd-nymph-07.jpg\" alt=\"Elias cicada nymph\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elias-magicicada-2nd-nymph-07.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elias-magicicada-2nd-nymph-07-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elias-magicicada-2nd-nymph-07-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThese are probable first and second instar nymphs of Magicicada septendecim (Periodical cicada) from the 2008 Brood XIV emergence. Dug up from beneath an oak tree. They were living approximately 4-6 inches from the ground surface. Temperature 70 deg.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elias-magicicada-1stand2nd-nymph-08.jpg\" alt=\"Elias Magicicada nymphs\" width=\"800\" height=\"467\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elias-magicicada-1stand2nd-nymph-08.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elias-magicicada-1stand2nd-nymph-08-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elias-magicicada-1stand2nd-nymph-08-768x448.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you every wondered what cicadas look like when they&#8217;re underground? Elias Bonaros did some digging and took these photos of first and second instar Magicicada periodical cicadas on a warm winter day (March 21, 2010). Magicicadas have 5 instars, or phases of development. Each phase has a slightly different appearance. This is a probable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,2,674,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elias-bonaros","category-magicicada","category-nymphs","category-periodical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","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=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}