{"id":345,"date":"2007-11-20T20:33:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T03:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2007\/11\/20\/cicada-photos-from-australia\/"},"modified":"2020-03-22T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T18:49:01","slug":"cicada-photos-from-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-photos-from-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada photos from Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to announce that we received our first Australian cicada photos of this season!!! The photos were taken by Kevin Lee, Australia&#8217;s biggest cicada maniac. <\/p>\n<p>According to Kevin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis is the season for cicadas and this year they are more proliferating that usual. Some would call it a plague but I love it.<\/p>\n<p>The birds (kookaburras and magpies) are having a feast!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Double Drummer (Thopha saccata):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007-kevinlee-01-600px.jpg\" alt=\"Double Drummer (Thopha saccata)\" title=\"Double Drummer (Thopha saccata)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007-kevinlee-01-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007-kevinlee-01-600px-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Double Drummer can be found in parts of eastern Queensland and Eastern NSW, from November to early March.  (Moulds, M.S.. <u>Australian Cicadas<\/u> Kennsignton: New South Wales Press, 1990, p.55)<\/p>\n<p>rare green yellow Green Grocer (Cyclochila australasiae) and others:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007-kevinlee-02-600px.jpg\" alt=\"Green Grocer (Cyclochila australasiae)\" title=\"Green Grocer (Cyclochila australasiae)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007-kevinlee-02-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007-kevinlee-02-600px-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>rare green yellow Green Grocer:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007-kevinlee-03-600px.jpg\" alt=\"Green Grocer (Cyclochila australasiae)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007-kevinlee-03-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007-kevinlee-03-600px-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cyclochila australasiae can be found in eastern Queensland, NSW and Victoria, and most emerge in October and November (Moulds, M.S.. <u>Australian Cicadas<\/u> Kennsignton: New South Wales Press, 1990, p. 61.).<\/p>\n<p>More: <strong><a href=\"\/cicadas\/category\/australia\/\">Previous posts about Australia&#8217;s cicadas<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cicadas\/category\/contributors\/kevin-lee\/\">See all of Kevin&#8217;s cicada photos.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to announce that we received our first Australian cicada photos of this season!!! The photos were taken by Kevin Lee, Australia&#8217;s biggest cicada maniac. According to Kevin: This is the season for cicadas and this year they are more proliferating that usual. Some would call it a plague but I love it. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,95,24,132],"tags":[131,94],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-cyclochila","category-kevin-lee","category-thopha","tag-double-drummer","tag-green-grocer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}