{"id":1164,"date":"2010-12-30T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2020-03-25T20:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T03:14:52","slug":"cicada-alphabet-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-alphabet-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Alphabet: O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>O is for ocelli<\/strong>. Ocelli are three jewel-like eyes situated between the two main, compound eyes of a cicada. We believe ocelli are used to detect light and darkness. Ocelli means little eyes in Latin. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ocelli.jpg\" alt=\"ocelli\" width=\"381\" height=\"379\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ocelli.jpg 381w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ocelli-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ocelli-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Okanagana<\/strong> is a genus of cicada found in North America. These cicadas are primarily black with white, beige or orange markings. Here is <a href=\"\/cicadas\/okanagana-rimosa-photo-by-natasha-from-2005\/\">a photo of an Okanagana rimosa<\/a> (Say&#8217;s Cicada). Here is <a href=\"\/cicadas\/okanagana-bella-photo-by-phobe\/\">a photo of an Okanagana bella<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Operculum<\/strong> means cover or lid in Latin, and the operculum covers the tympanum (which allows cicadas to hear). <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2005-dantibicen-1-473x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Neotibicen tibicen tibicen photos\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2005-dantibicen-1-473x1024.jpg 473w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2005-dantibicen-1-138x300.jpg 138w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2005-dantibicen-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Orientopsaltria beaudouini<\/strong> is a medium sized cicada that can be found in Thailand. See a photo of a Orientopsaltria beaudouini:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cic0032orientopsaltriabeaudouini.jpg\" alt=\"Orientopsaltria beaudouini Boulard, 2003\" width=\"513\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cic0032orientopsaltriabeaudouini.jpg 513w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cic0032orientopsaltriabeaudouini-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><br \/>Photo by Michel Chantraine.<\/p>\n<p>The female cicada uses her <strong>Ovipositor<\/strong> to deposit her ovum (eggs) into a tree branch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O is for ocelli. Ocelli are three jewel-like eyes situated between the two main, compound eyes of a cicada. We believe ocelli are used to detect light and darkness. Ocelli means little eyes in Latin. Okanagana is a genus of cicada found in North America. These cicadas are primarily black with white, beige or orange [&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-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicada-alphabet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","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=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}