{"id":1152,"date":"2010-09-04T11:53:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T18:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2010-09-04T11:53:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T18:53:56","slug":"cicada-alphabet-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-alphabet-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Alphabet: I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I is for instar<\/strong>. An instar is a developmental phase in the life of an insect. Each instar marks a change in the abilities and characteristics of the insect. Most cicadas go through five instars; the final instar of a cicada&#8217;s life is the adult or imago phase. <\/p>\n<p>An <strong>imago<\/strong> is an adult, sexually mature insect. Here&#8217;s a photo of Magicicada imagoes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-846\" title=\"Magicicadas\" alt=\"Magicicadas\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/peekaboosmall.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/peekaboosmall.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/peekaboosmall-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Insectoverdin<\/strong> is the pigment that that makes insects like cicadas green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I is for instar. An instar is a developmental phase in the life of an insect. Each instar marks a change in the abilities and characteristics of the insect. Most cicadas go through five instars; the final instar of a cicada&#8217;s life is the adult or imago phase. An imago is an adult, sexually mature [&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-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicada-alphabet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","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=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}