{"id":18094,"date":"2023-07-11T11:15:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T18:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=18094"},"modified":"2023-10-20T21:41:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T04:41:03","slug":"lyric-cicada-nymph-and-adult-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/lyric-cicada-nymph-and-adult-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyric Cicada Nymph and Adult Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/neotibicen-lyricen-lyricen-de-geer-1773-aka-lyric-cicada\/\">The Lyric Cicada<\/a> (Neotibicen lyricen) is found in most states west of the Rocky Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>This is what a Lyric Cicada nymph looks like before it molts:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Neotibicen-lyricen-nymph.jpg\" alt=\"Neotibicen lyricen nymph\" width=\"800\" height=\"624\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Neotibicen-lyricen-nymph.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Neotibicen-lyricen-nymph-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Neotibicen-lyricen-nymph-768x599.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what it looks like as an adult:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Neotibicen-lyricen-adult.jpg\" alt=\"Neotibicen lyricen adult\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Neotibicen-lyricen-adult.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Neotibicen-lyricen-adult-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Neotibicen-lyricen-adult-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Hardened-Lyricen-02large-scaled.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Hardened-Lyricen-02small.webp\" alt=\"Hardened Lyricen 02(large)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1255\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Hardened-Lyricen-02small.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Hardened-Lyricen-02small-191x300.webp 191w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Hardened-Lyricen-02small-653x1024.webp 653w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Hardened-Lyricen-02small-768x1205.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that the Lyric Cicada&#8217;s eye color (brown), wing vein color (green), and foreleg color (orange-brown) are visible as a nymph and adult. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the in-between teneral phase:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lyric-Cicada-Teneral.jpg\" alt=\"Lyric Cicada Teneral\" width=\"409\" height=\"854\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lyric-Cicada-Teneral.jpg 409w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lyric-Cicada-Teneral-144x300.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lyric Cicada (Neotibicen lyricen) is found in most states west of the Rocky Mountains. This is what a Lyric Cicada nymph looks like before it molts: This is what it looks like as an adult: Note that the Lyric Cicada&#8217;s eye color (brown), wing vein color (green), and foreleg color (orange-brown) are visible as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[696],"class_list":["post-18094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neotibicen","tag-n-lyricen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094","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=18094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}