{"id":149,"date":"2006-09-22T13:50:38","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T20:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2006\/09\/22\/august-dry-birds-and-end-of-the-tibicen-season\/"},"modified":"2020-03-07T19:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T02:16:15","slug":"august-dry-birds-and-end-of-the-tibicen-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/august-dry-birds-and-end-of-the-tibicen-season\/","title":{"rendered":"August Dry Birds and end of the Tibicen season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone familar with the term &#8220;August Dry Birds&#8221;? William M wrote to say to he knew a farmer in Vermont who called cicadas that. I&#8217;ve heard of &#8220;locusts&#8221; and &#8220;harvest fly&#8221; before, but &#8220;August Dry Birds&#8221; is new to me. <\/p>\n<p>Some news article found by Roy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ljworld.com\/news\/2006\/aug\/28\/cicadas_summer_song_hits_highvolume_pitch\/?city_local\">Cicadas&#8217; summer song hits high-volume pitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I went hiking last weekend in New Jersey&#8217;s Atlantic Highlands (yes, New Jersey has trees and wildlife) and I heard plenty of Tibicen cicadas, but I think we&#8217;re close to the end of the season. Anyone else still hearing Tibicens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone familar with the term &#8220;August Dry Birds&#8221;? William M wrote to say to he knew a farmer in Vermont who called cicadas that. I&#8217;ve heard of &#8220;locusts&#8221; and &#8220;harvest fly&#8221; before, but &#8220;August Dry Birds&#8221; is new to me. Some news article found by Roy: Cicadas&#8217; summer song hits high-volume pitch. I went hiking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neocicada","category-tibicen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}