{"id":5461,"date":"2015-06-27T11:55:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T18:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2020-03-15T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T17:47:59","slug":"is-there-such-thing-as-an-albino-cicada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/is-there-such-thing-as-an-albino-cicada\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there such thing as an albino cicada?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. When many types of cicadas first emerge from their nymphal skin they are white in color. Gradually, their bodies become a darker color. Some take longer than others to change. Some die before the change can occur, and their corpses remain white.<\/p>\n<p>This is a photo of a teneral (soft) Magicicada:<br \/> <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nate-2004-04.jpg\" alt=\"Brood X Magicicada photos by Nate Rhodes from 2004.\" width=\"797\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nate-2004-04.jpg 797w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nate-2004-04-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nate-2004-04-768x693.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><br \/>\nIts skin will eventually turn black and orange.<\/p>\n<p>The are some cicadas, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/338552\">Tibicen pruinosus fulvus<\/a> Beamer, 1924, that retain their lighter, teneral colors, but they are not albinos. Note: fulvus means yellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. When many types of cicadas first emerge from their nymphal skin they are white in color. Gradually, their bodies become a darker color. Some take longer than others to change. Some die before the change can occur, and their corpses remain white. This is a photo of a teneral (soft) Magicicada: Its skin will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicada-anatomy","category-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461","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=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}