{"id":3499,"date":"2013-03-28T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2019-05-20T21:10:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T04:10:58","slug":"videos-of-cicadas-moulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/videos-of-cicadas-moulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos of cicadas molting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a cicada sheds its nymphal skin, revealing its adult form, we call it ecdysis. You probably call it molting, and that&#8217;s just fine. <\/p>\n<p>Here are a bunch of videos of cicadas moulting:<\/p>\n<p>Here is a <strong>Magicicada nymph molting<\/strong> (the 17-year variety) by Roy Troutman:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20985355\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/20985355\">Magicicada nymph molting<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1091845\">Roy Troutman<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annual cicada molting<\/strong> to an adult by Roy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/21247218\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/21247218\">Annual cicada molting to an adult<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1091845\">Roy Troutman<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <strong>Tibicen moulting<\/strong> by blackpawphoto (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&#038;v=QiM7w-9Z0uQ\">YouTube Link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QiM7w-9Z0uQ?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of a Japanese cicada, <strong>the Terpnosia nigricosta, moulting<\/strong> by AntoSan09 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DdpNBOiRbgg\">YouTube Link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DdpNBOiRbgg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a cicada sheds its nymphal skin, revealing its adult form, we call it ecdysis. You probably call it molting, and that&#8217;s just fine. Here are a bunch of videos of cicadas moulting: Here is a Magicicada nymph molting (the 17-year variety) by Roy Troutman: Magicicada nymph molting from Roy Troutman on Vimeo. Annual cicada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exuvia","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","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=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}