{"id":6608,"date":"2016-08-31T05:56:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2020-03-22T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T16:22:24","slug":"an-early-start-to-australias-cicada-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/an-early-start-to-australias-cicada-season\/","title":{"rendered":"An early start to Australia&#8217;s cicada season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cicada researcher and photographer Nathan Emery found his first Bladder Cicada (Cystosoma saundersii) for the year. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/observations\/4000790\">this iNaturalist page<\/a>. It is still winter there, so this is particular interesting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ecotechnica\">@ecotechnica<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_DrPop_\">@_DrPop_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/inaturalist\">@inaturalist<\/a> and so it begins!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Greenville (@AarontheEcolog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AarontheEcolog\/status\/770905534929133568\">August 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AarontheEcolog\">@AarontheEcolog<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_DrPop_\">@_DrPop_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/inaturalist\">@inaturalist<\/a> Hopefully a good omen for a bumper season! ping <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cicadamania\">@cicadamania<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nathan Emery (@ecotechnica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ecotechnica\/status\/770905847333400576\">August 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>A Bladder cicada looks like this (Cystosoma saundersii):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cicadas\/cicada-season-has-begun-in-australia\/bladder-cicada-sydney-sept2010\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bladder-cicada-Sydney-Sept2010-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"Bladder cicadas (Cystosoma saundersii)\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11272\" srcset=\"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, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bladder-cicada-Sydney-Sept2010.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>Photo by David Emery.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/dr-pop.net\/cystosoma.htm\">more about this cicada<\/a> on Dr. Pop&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cicada researcher and photographer Nathan Emery found his first Bladder Cicada (Cystosoma saundersii) for the year. See this iNaturalist page. It is still winter there, so this is particular interesting. @ecotechnica @_DrPop_ @inaturalist and so it begins! &mdash; Aaron Greenville (@AarontheEcolog) August 31, 2016 @AarontheEcolog @_DrPop_ @inaturalist Hopefully a good omen for a bumper season! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,135,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-cystosoma","category-nathan-emery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608","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=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}