{"id":21804,"date":"2026-07-04T07:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=21804"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:19:58","slug":"fourth-of-july-independence-day-in-the-u-s-means-summer-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/fourth-of-july-independence-day-in-the-u-s-means-summer-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth of July \/ Independence Day in the U.S. means Summer Cicadas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, of all, over on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cicadamania\">the Facebook page<\/a> we shared Annette DeGiovine&#8217;s 4th of July Magicicada image:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcicadamania%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02XQEAqFNWyHWERm3BYj28jQdKAcKenMiL3pPDswRehRqewAMTgcJxz1Ur4ihb5PFTl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"453\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, I don&#8217;t have a Facebook&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know what to tell you. Send your parents to Facebook and have them download the photo for you. I am not in love with the site either, but it allows me to stay in touch with cicada fans and share the cicada message. There is also the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/cicadadiscussion\">Facebook Cicada Science and Discussion Group<\/a> &#8212; a group I created and can moderate, but Facebook as banned me from posting to. <\/p>\n<p>Check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/category\/pop-culture\/fireworks\/\">Cicada Fireworks posts<\/a> from previous years. Fireworks makers often name fireworks after cicadas because they both &#8220;fly&#8221; and &#8220;SCREAMMMM&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, now that we&#8217;re in July, it is time for Summer Cicadas in the U.S.A! Any Magicicada stragglers are gone, and Platypedia (the fisherman&#8217;s friend) and tiny Cicadettana have peaked. It&#8217;s time for the big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/category\/genera\/megatibicen\/\">Megatibicen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/category\/genera\/neotibicen\/\">Neotibicen<\/a> species to take the stage. Here&#8217;s a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/common-cicadas-of-north-america\/\">the most-common cicadas in the U.S.A.<\/a> with photos and sounds for easy identification. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, of all, over on the Facebook page we shared Annette DeGiovine&#8217;s 4th of July Magicicada image: &#8220;Oh, I don&#8217;t have a Facebook&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know what to tell you. Send your parents to Facebook and have them download the photo for you. I am not in love with the site either, but it allows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1056,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fireworks","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804","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=21804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21808,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804\/revisions\/21808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}