{"id":1894,"date":"2011-05-09T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2024-06-27T04:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T11:53:40","slug":"look-out-for-magicicadas-with-white-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/look-out-for-magicicadas-with-white-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Look out for Magicicadas with white eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the periodical cicadas you&#8217;ll see have red or reddish-orange eyes. A very small number, however, have white, blue, or yellow eyes. Some even have amazing <a href=\"\/cicadas\/close-up-photos-of-marble-colored-cicada-eyes\/\">multi-colored eyes<\/a>. Have you seen any white eyed periodical cicadas yet? Be on the lookout for them, and make sure you take a photo or video when you see one. Have a contest with your friends and family to see who can find the first white or blue-eyed cicada. If you have a TV station, radio show or a local website, you could have a contest for who can find the first white eyed cicada. I personally have only found one white eyed cicada (video below), so I have to guess that the odds are at least one in 10,000. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of a white eyed Magicicada cicada Roy Troutman found back in 2004:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/roy-2004-14.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a Magicicada cicada with white eyes by Roy Troutman.\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/roy-2004-14.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/roy-2004-14-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/roy-2004-14-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roy took a photo of a blue-eyed cicada, and I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/dd\/4918520\">made a t-shirt from the image<\/a> (I use the mug version for my morning coffee).<\/p>\n<p>This is a video of white eyed cicada I recorded back in 2007: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/8772684\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/8772684\">White eyed Magicicada by Dan<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cicadamania\">Cicada Mania<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cicadas\/category\/eye-color\/\">All photos of periodical cicadas with different color eyes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the periodical cicadas you&#8217;ll see have red or reddish-orange eyes. A very small number, however, have white, blue, or yellow eyes. Some even have amazing multi-colored eyes. Have you seen any white eyed periodical cicadas yet? Be on the lookout for them, and make sure you take a photo or video when you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eye-color","category-magicicada","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","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=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}