{"id":5548,"date":"2015-07-05T07:58:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T14:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2018-09-05T20:54:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T03:54:17","slug":"did-someone-offer-a-reward-for-white-or-blue-eyed-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/did-someone-offer-a-reward-for-white-or-blue-eyed-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Someone Offer a Reward for White or Blue-eyed Cicadas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it true that someone has offered a reward for a white or blue-eyed Magicicada cicadas?<\/p>\n<p>This was false and <strong>an urban legend<\/strong> until in 2008 when <a href=\"\/cicadas\/roy-troutman\/\">Roy Troutman<\/a> began to offer rewards for living blue-eyed cicadas for scientific research. All cicadas were released, unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>Important: Roy is no longer offering the reward as he has obtained the cicadas needed for his research. So, don&#8217;t bug him, unless you want to tell him that his photos and video are awesome.<\/p>\n<p>White or Blue-eyed Magicicadas cicadas are extremely rare, so finding them can be difficult. I usually find one per emergence, and that is after looking at thousands of cicadas. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Roy and White-eyed cicadas, here is a video Roy took of a White-eyed cicada:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20986467\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a white and orange-eyed cicada photo taken by Roy:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/upclose01.jpg' alt='Upclose on Marble eyed 17 year cicada' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it true that someone has offered a reward for a white or blue-eyed Magicicada cicadas? This was false and an urban legend until in 2008 when Roy Troutman began to offer rewards for living blue-eyed cicadas for scientific research. All cicadas were released, unharmed. Important: Roy is no longer offering the reward as he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,281,2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eye-color","category-faqs","category-magicicada","category-roy-troutman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548","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=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}