{"id":24250,"date":"2019-08-11T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=24250"},"modified":"2019-08-08T02:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T06:40:46","slug":"just-because-part-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/08\/just-because-part-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because, part 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Peekabug.jpg\" alt=\"periodic cicada molting while perched on car tire\" width=\"750\" height=\"762\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24251\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I occasionally get the chance to snag a pic or two, but not a lot of time to write up anything at all about them, so I&#8217;ll present a couple of &#8216;Just because&#8217; posts this week. In this case, it&#8217;s a cicada, of an unidentified species, that I found molting into final instar (reproducing adult phase) while attached to the tire of the car that I was working on. Don&#8217;t ask me why I was working on the car at night, just accept that I was. By the time I spotted it, it had already emerged fully and was extending its wings, so I didn&#8217;t bother with a sequence that I <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2018\/07\/right-place-right-time\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">already have in detail anyway<\/a>. I just went for a rather personal closeup. It does kind of look like it&#8217;s playing some game with its own molted exoskeleton. But hey, while we&#8217;re here, check out the trio of simple eyes set on its &#8216;forehead,&#8217; and the minuscule antennae. Also the color of the wings as they develop and dry out, because it&#8217;s one of the better palettes among any critter, as far as I&#8217;m concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally get the chance to snag a pic or two, but not a lot of time to write up anything at all about them, so I&#8217;ll present a couple of &#8216;Just because&#8217; posts this week. In this case, it&#8217;s a cicada, of an unidentified species, that I found molting into final instar (reproducing adult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,12],"tags":[2528,2531,1841],"class_list":["post-24250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-cicada","tag-cicadidae","tag-cicadoidea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}