{"id":649,"date":"2009-08-26T21:02:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T04:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=649"},"modified":"2024-05-15T19:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T02:55:10","slug":"tibicen-auletes-found-by-elias-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/tibicen-auletes-found-by-elias-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Megatibicen auletes found by Elias Bonaros in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might know Elias from his posts on the Message Board<\/a>. Monday, after a lot of searching, he found a female Tibicen auletes in Lakewood New Jersey.<\/p>\n

\nI was down in Lakewood NJ yesterday and after finding 5 more additional huge exuvia, the unthinkable happened. a female T. auletes flew to a light, hit the pole after circling many times and slid down to the ground. I easily captured her on the ground. Wanted to share this picture. look how beautiful she is with all that pruinosity!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tibicen auletes are the largest of the North American Tibicen species. Their bodies a a little under 2″ long. Auletes are also know as the Sissor-Grinder, Northern Dusk-singing Cicada, or Great Dusk-calling Cicada. Read more at Bug Guide<\/a>. The Songs of Insects site<\/a> has sound files so you can listen and hear if you have auletes in your yard too. <\/p>\n

Here’s Elias’ photos:<\/p>\n

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* Note as of 2023 the name of this cicada has changed to Megatibicen grossus<\/a>. You can also call it a Northern Dusk-Signing Cicada. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might know Elias from his posts on the Message Board. Monday, after a lot of searching, he found a female Tibicen auletes in Lakewood New Jersey. I was down in Lakewood NJ yesterday and after finding 5 more additional huge exuvia, the unthinkable happened. a female T. auletes flew to a light, hit the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,316,7],"tags":[342,1043],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elias-bonaros","category-megatibicen","category-tibicen","tag-m-auletes","tag-m-grossus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}