{"id":3890,"date":"2013-06-08T09:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T16:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2020-03-26T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T00:49:22","slug":"cicada-hunting-with-chris-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-hunting-with-chris-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Hunting with Chris Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday (June 1st) I met <a href=\"http:\/\/hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu\/projects\/cicada\/simon_lab\/member_pages\/c_simon.php\">Chris Simon<\/a> and <a href=\"\/cicadas\/category\/contributors\/elias-bonaros\/\">Elias Bonaros<\/a> in Staten Island. Chris was in Staten Island, NY to map cicada locations, and collect some specimens. Elias and I helped her find some M. septendecim and M. cassini. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Elias-Bonaros-_left_-Chris-Simon-of-Uconn-_middle_-Dan-Mozgai-_right_-looking-for-cicadas-765x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Elias Bonaros (left) Chris Simon of Uconn (middle) Dan Mozgai (right) looking for cicadas\" width=\"765\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Elias-Bonaros-_left_-Chris-Simon-of-Uconn-_middle_-Dan-Mozgai-_right_-looking-for-cicadas-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Elias-Bonaros-_left_-Chris-Simon-of-Uconn-_middle_-Dan-Mozgai-_right_-looking-for-cicadas-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Elias-Bonaros-_left_-Chris-Simon-of-Uconn-_middle_-Dan-Mozgai-_right_-looking-for-cicadas-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Elias-Bonaros-_left_-Chris-Simon-of-Uconn-_middle_-Dan-Mozgai-_right_-looking-for-cicadas.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><br \/><small>Elias (left), Chris (middle), Dan (right).<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Chris Simon leads <a href=\"http:\/\/hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu\/projects\/cicada\/simon_lab\/simonlab.php\">the Simon Lab<\/a> at the University of Connecticut. From <a href=\"http:\/\/hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu\/projects\/cicada\/simon_lab\/simon\/c_simon_bio.php\">her biography<\/a>: &#8220;Chris Simon is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut and Adjunct Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.&#8221; &#8220;Recent projects in her laboratory focus on the systematics, biogeography, evolution of cicadas worldwide, the application of information on molecular evolutionary processes to the improvement of tree-building, speciation and its relationship to past climates and landforms, evolution of periodical life cycles, the role of song in the evolution of insect species, and molecular evolution of the secondary structure of ribosomal RNA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/A-Magicicada-with-Pink-Eyes-held-by-Chris-Simon-of-UConn-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A Magicicada with Pink Eyes held by Chris Simon of UConn. Brood II. 2013.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/A-Magicicada-with-Pink-Eyes-held-by-Chris-Simon-of-UConn-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/A-Magicicada-with-Pink-Eyes-held-by-Chris-Simon-of-UConn-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/A-Magicicada-with-Pink-Eyes-held-by-Chris-Simon-of-UConn-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/A-Magicicada-with-Pink-Eyes-held-by-Chris-Simon-of-UConn-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/A-Magicicada-with-Pink-Eyes-held-by-Chris-Simon-of-UConn.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/><small>Chris Simon holding a pink eyed Magicicada.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday (June 1st) I met Chris Simon and Elias Bonaros in Staten Island. Chris was in Staten Island, NY to map cicada locations, and collect some specimens. Elias and I helped her find some M. septendecim and M. cassini. Elias (left), Chris (middle), Dan (right). Chris Simon leads the Simon Lab at the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,203,2,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brood-ii","category-chris-simon","category-magicicada","category-periodical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","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=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}