{"id":1143,"date":"2010-08-08T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2020-03-25T19:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T02:50:23","slug":"cicada-alphabet-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-alphabet-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Alphabet: E"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>E is for exuvia<\/strong>. People call them shells, skins, cicada ghosts and a dozen other names, but the proper name for what is left behind when a cicada transforms from a nymph to an adult is an <strong>exuvia<\/strong> The plural is exuviae. Also known as Integument.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dan-2004-tibicenshells-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Cicada skins\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dan-2004-tibicenshells-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dan-2004-tibicenshells-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dan-2004-tibicenshells.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Egg slits<\/strong>, aka oviposition slits, are the grooves a female cicada makes in a branch in which she will lay her eggs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestryimages.org\/browse\/detail.cfm?imgnum=1204119\">Here&#8217;s a photo of some egg slits<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestryimages.org\/browse\/detail.cfm?imgnum=1204116\">here&#8217;s a photo of eggs in a egg slit<\/a>. Call them oviposition slits if you&#8217;re talking to a scientist.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emergence<\/strong> can refer to:\n<ol>\n<li>When the adult cicada emerges from its exuvia<\/li>\n<li>When the nymph emerges from the ground<\/li>\n<li>Best answer: When and where a particular group of cicadas will emerge, for example, &#8220;There will be an emergence of Periodical cicadas around May 15th in the Nashville Tennessee area in 2011.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Euterpnosia chibensis<\/strong> is a cicada that exists in Japan. Here are some photos of <a href=\"\/cicadas\/euterpnosia-chibensis-photos-by-osamu-hikino\/\">Euterpnosia chibensis<\/a>. These cicadas are well known in Japan, and there are 3 sub-species: <a href=\"http:\/\/zikade.world.coocan.jp\/photo\/himeharu\/himeharu.html\">E. chibensis chibensis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/zikade.world.coocan.jp\/photo\/okinawahime\/okinawahime.html\">E. chibensis okinawana<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/zikade.world.coocan.jp\/photo\/daitohimeharu\/daitohimeharu.html\">E. chibensis daitoensis<\/a>. These cicadas look a lot like the North American species <a href=\"\/cicadas\/category\/neocicada\/\">Neocicada hieroglyphica.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E is for exuvia. People call them shells, skins, cicada ghosts and a dozen other names, but the proper name for what is left behind when a cicada transforms from a nymph to an adult is an exuvia The plural is exuviae. Also known as Integument. Egg slits, aka oviposition slits, are the grooves a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicada-alphabet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","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=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}