{"id":6566,"date":"2016-08-12T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:47:30","slug":"watch-a-swamp-cicada-shed-its-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/watch-a-swamp-cicada-shed-its-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch a Swamp Cicada shed its skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video I made this week. It is a Neotibicen tibicen tibicen (formerly Tibicen chloromera) shedding its skin as it enters the final phase of its development. The video is in 4K HD, but you have to fuss with the YouTube interface to see it at that resolution (good luck). Each frame represents a 30 sec time span.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ShkhkaAjmQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spoilers:<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5ShkhkaAjmQ?t=18\">18 seconds<\/a> its head pops out of its old skin.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5ShkhkaAjmQ?t=27\">27 seconds<\/a> it frees its wings.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5ShkhkaAjmQ?t=51\">51 seconds<\/a> it flips and unfurls its wings.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5ShkhkaAjmQ?t=85\">85 seconds<\/a> it moves its wings into place.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5ShkhkaAjmQ?t=100\">100 seconds<\/a> you can see pigment pulse through the cicadas mesonotum:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/meso.jpg\" alt=\"meso\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/meso.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/meso-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another video from last night:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fM3dK4FmFMI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video I made this week. It is a Neotibicen tibicen tibicen (formerly Tibicen chloromera) shedding its skin as it enters the final phase of its development. The video is in 4K HD, but you have to fuss with the YouTube interface to see it at that resolution (good luck). Each frame represents a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neotibicen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566","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=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}