{"id":4072,"date":"2013-07-30T20:44:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T03:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2024-08-18T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T20:06:47","slug":"tibicen-auletes-in-manchester-nj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/tibicen-auletes-in-manchester-nj\/","title":{"rendered":"Megatibicen auletes in Manchester, NJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went on an exploration of Manchester, NJ looking for Megatibicen auletes (Germar, 1834) with Elias Bonaros and his friend Annette.<\/p>\n<p>M. auletes, are known as the Northern Dusk Singing Cicada. As their name suggests, M. auletes calls at dusk, around sunset. Their call is amazing &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insectsingers.com\/100th_meridian_cicadas\/index.html\">visit Insect Singers<\/a> to hear their call.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I found a (deceased) female and an exuvia (nymph skin). Elias and Annette found many exuvia and a live nymph. We were able to watch the nymph undergo ecdysis (leave its exuvia, and expand its adult body).<\/p>\n<p>Here are some images of the cicadas we found last night (click the first two images to get to larger versions):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-nymph-Manchester-NJ.jpg\" alt=\"Neotibicen auletes nymph\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-nymph-Manchester-NJ.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-nymph-Manchester-NJ-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-nymph-Manchester-NJ-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ-ventral.jpg\" alt=\"Ventral view. Neotibicen auletes female Manchester NJ\" width=\"800\" height=\"648\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ-ventral.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ-ventral-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ-ventral-768x622.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ.jpg\" alt=\"Dorsal view. Neotibicen auletes female Manchester NJ\" width=\"800\" height=\"611\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ-768x587.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ-face-to-face.jpg\" alt=\"Neotibicen auletes female Manchester NJ\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ-face-to-face.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ-face-to-face-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ-face-to-face-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some (blurry) video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TkF9i6eBKBI?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dan and Elias netting a M. auletes exuvia. Photo by Annette DeGiovine-Oliveira:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Elias-Lakewood-New-Jersey_7-29-13-by-Annette-DeGiovine-Oliveira.jpg\" alt=\"Dan and Elias netting a T. auletes exuvia. Photo by Annette DeGiovine-Oliveira:\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Elias-Lakewood-New-Jersey_7-29-13-by-Annette-DeGiovine-Oliveira.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Elias-Lakewood-New-Jersey_7-29-13-by-Annette-DeGiovine-Oliveira-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>* Note as of 2023 the name of this cicada has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/megatibicen-auletes-is-changing-to-megatibicen-grossa\/\">changed to Megatibicen grossus<\/a>. You can also call it a Northern Dusk-Signing Cicada. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went on an exploration of Manchester, NJ looking for Megatibicen auletes (Germar, 1834) with Elias Bonaros and his friend Annette. M. auletes, are known as the Northern Dusk Singing Cicada. As their name suggests, M. auletes calls at dusk, around sunset. Their call is amazing &#8211; visit Insect Singers to hear their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1059,86,316,7,16],"tags":[342,1043,343],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annette-degiovine","category-elias-bonaros","category-megatibicen","category-tibicen","category-video","tag-m-auletes","tag-m-grossus","tag-manchester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","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=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}