{"id":13970,"date":"2020-04-04T08:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=13970"},"modified":"2020-08-03T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:18:26","slug":"photos-of-teneral-megatibicen-dorsatus-by-greg-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/photos-of-teneral-megatibicen-dorsatus-by-greg-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of teneral Megatibicen dorsatus by Greg Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/cicadas\/tag\/m-dorsatus\/\">Megatibicen dorsatus<\/a> is arguably the most beautiful cicada in the United States. Even it its teneral (meaning soft) form right after molting, in is visually impressive. <\/p>\n<p>These three photos were taken by <a href=\"http:\/\/thelope.com\">Greg Holmes<\/a> of a Megatibicen dorsatus in its post-molting, teneral state.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/67660468_451120462107620_2135337510551683072_n.jpg\" alt=\"M. dorsatus; teneral; copyright Greg Holmes\" width=\"796\" height=\"700\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/67660468_451120462107620_2135337510551683072_n.jpg 796w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/67660468_451120462107620_2135337510551683072_n-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/67660468_451120462107620_2135337510551683072_n-768x675.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/67805503_1407767022722936_8909120575570444288_n.jpg\" alt=\"M. dorsatus; teneral; copyright Greg Holmes\" width=\"446\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/67805503_1407767022722936_8909120575570444288_n.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/67805503_1407767022722936_8909120575570444288_n-178x300.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/68755681_1134430196766993_521133082380599296_n.jpg\" alt=\"M. dorsatus; teneral; copyright Greg Holmes\" width=\"519\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/68755681_1134430196766993_521133082380599296_n.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/68755681_1134430196766993_521133082380599296_n-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megatibicen dorsatus is arguably the most beautiful cicada in the United States. Even it its teneral (meaning soft) form right after molting, in is visually impressive. These three photos were taken by Greg Holmes of a Megatibicen dorsatus in its post-molting, teneral state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[753,316,445,675,174],"tags":[726],"class_list":["post-13970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greg-holmes","category-megatibicen","category-cryptotympanini","category-teneral","category-united-states","tag-m-dorsatus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970","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=13970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}