{"id":21366,"date":"2025-11-18T23:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=21366"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:35:41","slug":"2025-morning-cicada-review-molting-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2025-morning-cicada-review-molting-process\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Morning Cicada Review &#8211; Molting Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is part 2 of <strong>2025 Morning Cicada (Swamp Cicada, Neotibicen tibicen tibicen) photos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>A cicada pushing its way out of its skin:<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01-Pusing-out-of-the-skin.webp\" alt=\"The cicada pushing its way out of its skin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01-Pusing-out-of-the-skin.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01-Pusing-out-of-the-skin-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01-Pusing-out-of-the-skin-600x800.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01-Pusing-out-of-the-skin-768x1024.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The cicada out of its skin, beginning to inflate its wings.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02-Wings-are-free.webp\" alt=\"The cicada out of its skin , starting to inflate its wings,\" width=\"800\" height=\"722\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02-Wings-are-free.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02-Wings-are-free-300x271.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02-Wings-are-free-768x693.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>A hemolymph bubble on the cicada&#039;s wing. An injury that is usually not fatal.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/03-H-bubble.webp\" alt=\"A hemolymph bubble on the cicada&#039;s wing. An injury that is usually not fatal.\" width=\"800\" height=\"914\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/03-H-bubble.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/03-H-bubble-263x300.webp 263w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/03-H-bubble-700x800.webp 700w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/03-H-bubble-768x877.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The cicada with every part but the end of its abdomen out of its skin.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04-The-Crunch-from-above.webp\" alt=\"The cicada with every part but the end of its abdomen out of its skin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04-The-Crunch-from-above.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04-The-Crunch-from-above-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04-The-Crunch-from-above-600x800.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04-The-Crunch-from-above-768x1024.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>A cicada mostly out of its old skin and about to reach forward and grab the skin so it can pull its abdomen out.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/05-The-Crunch.webp\" alt=\"The cicada mostly out of its old skin and about to reach forward and grab the skin so it can pull its abdomen out.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/05-The-Crunch.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/05-The-Crunch-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/05-The-Crunch-600x800.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/05-The-Crunch-768x1024.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2025-morning-cicada-review-the-nymphs\/\">Part 1: the Nymphs<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2025-morning-cicada-review-teneral-cicadas-hardening-wings\/\">Part 3: teneral cicadas hardening wings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part 2 of 2025 Morning Cicada (Swamp Cicada, Neotibicen tibicen tibicen) photos. A cicada pushing its way out of its skin: The cicada out of its skin, beginning to inflate its wings. A hemolymph bubble on the cicada&#039;s wing. An injury that is usually not fatal. The cicada with every part but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357,300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-molting","category-neotibicen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21366","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=21366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}