{"id":4290,"date":"2013-09-22T20:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T03:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2020-03-12T21:32:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T04:32:56","slug":"cicada-season-has-begun-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-season-has-begun-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Season has begun in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Emery wrote to let us know that cicada season has begun in parts of Australia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n             After some 50mm of rain on 16-17 Sept and the warmest winter on record on the east coast, the &#8220;masked devil&#8221; morphs of <em>Cyclochila australasiae<\/em> were in good voice in the mountains west and south of Sydney, Australia on 22nd Sept. The bladder cicadas (Cystosoma saundersii) are also rattling in Metro Sydney. These are about 2 weeks early this year as are several of the smaller grass cicadas and Pauropsalta species. Roll on summer!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, David.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Masked Devil cicada (Cyclochila australasiae):<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2007-davidemery-02-original.jpg\" alt=\"Masked Devil cicada (Cyclochila australasiae)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1193\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2007-davidemery-02-original.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2007-davidemery-02-original-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2007-davidemery-02-original-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2007-davidemery-02-original-768x1145.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More information about <a href=\"http:\/\/dr-pop.net\/australasiae-048.htm\">Cyclochila australasiae<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bladder cicadas (Cystosoma saundersii):<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bladder-cicada-Sydney-Sept2010.jpg\" alt=\"Bladder cicadas (Cystosoma saundersii)\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bladder-cicada-Sydney-Sept2010.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bladder-cicada-Sydney-Sept2010-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bladder-cicada-Sydney-Sept2010-768x406.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More information about <a href=\"http:\/\/dr-pop.net\/cystosoma.htm\">Cystosoma saundersii<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottle Cicada (Chlorocysta sp.):<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bottle-Burwood3-Nov09-_2__JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Bottle Cicada\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bottle-Burwood3-Nov09-_2__JPG.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bottle-Burwood3-Nov09-_2__JPG-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bottle-Burwood3-Nov09-_2__JPG-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More information about <a href=\"http:\/\/dr-pop.net\/chlorocysta.htm\">Bottle cicadas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Emery wrote to let us know that cicada season has begun in parts of Australia: After some 50mm of rain on 16-17 Sept and the warmest winter on record on the east coast, the &#8220;masked devil&#8221; morphs of Cyclochila australasiae were in good voice in the mountains west and south of Sydney, Australia on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,95,135,23,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-cyclochila","category-cystosoma","category-david-emery","category-pauropsalta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","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=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}