She said she takes special care not to harm the cicadas she encounters while mining. The cicada looks like a cicada belonging to the genus Neotibicen, and based on what I am seeing iNaturalist<\/a>, it’s probably a Neotibicen canicularis aka Dog Day cicada<\/a>.<\/p>\n Be sure to look out for cicada nymphs while you are prospecting for rocks and minerals, gardening, digging foundations or other subterranean activities. Treat the cicadas you encounter with care. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cicadas spend most of their lives tunneling through soil. Herkimer Diamonds — doubly terminated quartz crystals — are found in the soil of Herkimner, New York. Sometimes they’re found together. Last weekend I met a Herkimer diamond prospector Just Herks at a local rock and mineral show. She had this photo of a cicada nymph […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-underground","category-neotibicen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652","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=21652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cicada](\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cicada-diamond-144px.webp\")
Photo © Just Herks<\/a>. <\/p>\n