{"id":16892,"date":"2021-06-09T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=16892"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:49:11","slug":"brood-x-2021-princeton-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/brood-x-2021-princeton-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Brood X 2021 Princeton, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Princeton Battlefield (historical location of one of George Washington&#8217;s battles) has always been a great place to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/periodical-cicada-brood-x-10-will-emerge-in-15-states-in-2021\/\">Brood X<\/a> periodical cicadas. <\/p>\n<p>Here are a few photos I took last weekend:<\/p>\n<p>A female Magicicada septendecim with white eyes &#038; costal wing margin mating:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-MATING-WHITE-EYES.jpg\" alt=\"Magicicada with white eyes mating\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-MATING-WHITE-EYES.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-MATING-WHITE-EYES-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A female Magicicada septendecim with white eyes &#038; costal wing margin:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-WHITE-EYES.jpg\" alt=\"Magicicada septendecim female with white eyes\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-WHITE-EYES.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-WHITE-EYES-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-WHITE-EYES-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Magicicada with beige eyes:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-PINK-EYES.jpg\" alt=\"Magicicada with beige eyes\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-PINK-EYES.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-PINK-EYES-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-PINK-EYES-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many, many exit holes:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-Holey-Moly.jpg\" alt=\"Loads of holes\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-Holey-Moly.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-Holey-Moly-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Triple exit holes in mud (kinda looks like a skull):<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-TRIPLE-EXIT-HOLES.jpg\" alt=\"Triple exit holes in mud\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-TRIPLE-EXIT-HOLES.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-TRIPLE-EXIT-HOLES-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Egg nests carved into branches by the cicadas ovipositor:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-EGG-NESTS.jpg\" alt=\"Egg nests\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-EGG-NESTS.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-EGG-NESTS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CM-0906-800-EGG-NESTS-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Princeton Battlefield (historical location of one of George Washington&#8217;s battles) has always been a great place to find Brood X periodical cicadas. Here are a few photos I took last weekend: A female Magicicada septendecim with white eyes &#038; costal wing margin mating: A female Magicicada septendecim with white eyes &#038; costal wing margin: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,15,2,287],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-16892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brood-x","category-eye-color","category-magicicada","category-mating","tag-m-septendecim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16892","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=16892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}