{"id":3723,"date":"2013-05-18T07:48:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T14:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2020-03-23T19:33:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T02:33:46","slug":"photos-of-a-brood-ii-magicicada-from-madison-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/photos-of-a-brood-ii-magicicada-from-madison-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of a Brood II Magicicada from Madison, NC."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These photos of a Magicicada undergoing ecdysis (moulting) in Madison, NC are by photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queenbphotography.net\">Heather James<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Click thumbnail images to see progressively larger versions of the images:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/K1024_qbl.jpg\" alt=\"Heather James - Brood II\" width=\"768\" height=\"1160\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/K1024_qbl.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/K1024_qbl-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/K1024_qbl-678x1024.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;white strings&#8221; connecting the teneral (soft) adult cicada to its exuvia (shell, skin) are the old lining of the cicada&#8217;s trachea (the tubes through which it breathed).  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/K1024_qbl4.jpg\" alt=\"Heather James - Brood II\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/K1024_qbl4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/K1024_qbl4-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/K1024_qbl4-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These photos of a Magicicada undergoing ecdysis (moulting) in Madison, NC are by photographer Heather James. Click thumbnail images to see progressively larger versions of the images: The &#8220;white strings&#8221; connecting the teneral (soft) adult cicada to its exuvia (shell, skin) are the old lining of the cicada&#8217;s trachea (the tubes through which it breathed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brood-ii","category-magicicada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","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=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}