{"id":21376,"date":"2025-11-18T23:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=21376"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:34:35","slug":"2025-morning-cicada-review-teneral-cicadas-hardening-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2025-morning-cicada-review-teneral-cicadas-hardening-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Morning Cicada Review &#8211; teneral cicadas hardening wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Part 3 of my 2025 Morning Cicada (Swamp Cicada, Neotibicen tibicen tibicen) review.<\/p>\n<p>These photos are of cicadas that have recently molted from their nymphal skins and are expanding and hardening their wings.<\/p>\n<h2>Expanding wings, with a few wrinkles<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7721.webp\" alt=\"Neotibicen tibicen tibicen hardening their wings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7721.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7721-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7721-600x800.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7721-768x1024.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Wings hardening and folded against the cicadas&#8217;s body. Interesting blue-green eye color<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7730.webp\" alt=\"Neotibicen tibicen tibicen hardening their wings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7730.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7730-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7730-600x800.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7730-768x1024.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Wings hardening and folded against the cicadas&#8217;s body<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7756.webp\" alt=\"Neotibicen tibicen tibicen hardening their wings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7756.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7756-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7756-600x800.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7756-768x1024.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7865.webp\" alt=\"Neotibicen tibicen tibicen hardening their wings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7865.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7865-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7865-600x800.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7865-768x1024.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2025-morning-cicada-review-molting-process\/\">Part 2<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2025-morning-cicada-review-the-nymphs\/\">Part 1<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Part 3 of my 2025 Morning Cicada (Swamp Cicada, Neotibicen tibicen tibicen) review. These photos are of cicadas that have recently molted from their nymphal skins and are expanding and hardening their wings. Expanding wings, with a few wrinkles Wings hardening and folded against the cicadas&#8217;s body. Interesting blue-green eye color Wings hardening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300,675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neotibicen","category-teneral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376","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=21376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}