{"id":12366,"date":"2017-05-30T17:55:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T22:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12366"},"modified":"2017-06-01T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T22:14:08","slug":"cicada-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12366","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12368\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170530_142199.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12368\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170530_142199-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Cicada Wing\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12368\" data-wp-pid=\"12368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170530_142199-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170530_142199-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170530_142199-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170530_142199-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170530_142199-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170530_142199.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cicada Wing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Because there are a lot of them about, I&#8217;m guessing that this is a wing from a Riley\u2019s 13-year cicada (<em>Magicicada tredecim<\/em>) like the one whose picture I posted ten days ago (see: <a href=\"?p=12312\" target=\"_20170520\">Saturday, May 20, 2017<\/a>). I think it&#8217;s a beautiful thing. It&#8217;s also quite sturdy. This one was separated from its owner and has little droplets of water on it. Even handling it to get it into position for a photo didn&#8217;t dislodge them. Interestingly, the wings of the clanger cicada (<em>Psaltoda claripennis<\/em>, also known as the clear wing cicada), a species found in eastern Australia, has a physical structure of  &#x2018;nanopillars&#x2019; that kill bacteria that settle on them. Pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because there are a lot of them about, I&#8217;m guessing that this is a wing from a Riley\u2019s 13-year cicada (Magicicada tredecim) like the one whose picture I posted ten days ago (see: Saturday, May 20, 2017). I think it&#8217;s a beautiful thing. It&#8217;s also quite sturdy. This one was separated from its owner and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12372,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions\/12372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}