{"id":6870,"date":"2017-03-02T20:05:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T03:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2025-08-19T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:00:57","slug":"quesada-gigas-out-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/quesada-gigas-out-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Quesada gigas out in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Mike&#8217;s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasento.net\/Cicada.htm\">Giant Cicada \/ Chicharra Grande<\/a> has records of the early calling. 3 to 4 months early!<\/p>\n<p>Mike Quinn, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EntoMike\">@EntoMike<\/a> on Twitter, reported on February 22nd that Quesada gigas have been singing in Texas. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Giant Cicadas \/ Chicharras are currently calling at several southmost TX locations.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F21FJnl7iM\">https:\/\/t.co\/F21FJnl7iM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RGV?src=hash\">#RGV<\/a> <br \/>Contact me for details. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RkGjv0VOMG\">pic.twitter.com\/RkGjv0VOMG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Quinn (@EntoMike) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EntoMike\/status\/834520826032619520\">February 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Listen to their song:<\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6870-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/04.US_.TX_.RIO_.C68.Quesada_gigas_filtered.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/04.US_.TX_.RIO_.C68.Quesada_gigas_filtered.mp3\">https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/04.US_.TX_.RIO_.C68.Quesada_gigas_filtered.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nSource: <strong>&copy;<a href=\"http:\/\/insectsingers.com\/\">Insect Singers<\/a><\/strong> | Species: <strong>Q. gigas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cigarra-Quesada-gigas-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Quesada gigas from Brazil, Photo by Leonardo Milhomem\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cigarra-Quesada-gigas-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cigarra-Quesada-gigas-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cigarra-Quesada-gigas.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>Photo credit: Photo by Leonardo Milhomem.<\/p>\n<p>More information about <a href=\"\/cicadas\/quesada-gigas-olivier-1790\/\">Quesada gigas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Mike&#8217;s website Giant Cicada \/ Chicharra Grande has records of the early calling. 3 to 4 months early! Mike Quinn, @EntoMike on Twitter, reported on February 22nd that Quesada gigas have been singing in Texas. Giant Cicadas \/ Chicharras are currently calling at several southmost TX locations.https:\/\/t.co\/F21FJnl7iM #RGV Contact me for details. pic.twitter.com\/RkGjv0VOMG &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,106],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-quinn","category-quesada","tag-q-gigas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","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=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}