{"id":16041,"date":"2021-01-24T23:12:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T06:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=16041"},"modified":"2021-01-24T23:24:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T06:24:44","slug":"70000-magicicada-one-adult-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/70000-magicicada-one-adult-american\/","title":{"rendered":"70,000 Magicicada cicadas = one adult American?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering how much an adult Magicicada weighs. According to Richard Karban&#8217;s paper &#8220;Transient habitats limit development time for periodical cicadas,&#8221; a female Magicicada septendecim weighs approximately 1.2 grams. (Karban, R. (2014), Transient habitats limit development time for periodical cicadas. Ecology, 95: 3-8. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1890\/13-1518.1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1890\/13-1518.1<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/body-measurements.htm\">According to the CDC website<\/a>, the average adult American human weighs 84051 grams.<\/p>\n<p>That means the average adult weighs as much as 70,043 Magicicada cicadas.<\/p>\n<p>Image unrelated:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GVC2.jpg\" alt=\"Godzilla vs Cicada\" width=\"800\" height=\"371\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GVC2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GVC2-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GVC2-768x356.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering how much an adult Magicicada weighs. According to Richard Karban&#8217;s paper &#8220;Transient habitats limit development time for periodical cicadas,&#8221; a female Magicicada septendecim weighs approximately 1.2 grams. (Karban, R. (2014), Transient habitats limit development time for periodical cicadas. Ecology, 95: 3-8. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1890\/13-1518.1) According to the CDC website, the average adult American human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magicicada","category-periodical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16041","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=16041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}