{"id":10505,"date":"2020-03-01T08:47:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=10505"},"modified":"2020-03-01T08:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:49:11","slug":"seagulls-and-cicadas-photo-by-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/seagulls-and-cicadas-photo-by-sue\/","title":{"rendered":"Seagulls and cicadas photo by Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These images go back to 2007 (Brood XIII). <\/p>\n<p>Sue had noticed that seagulls had taken a liking (maybe an obsession) to cicadas. Look at all those seagulls ready to swoop down (or up) and grab a cicada:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sube-seagulls.jpg\" alt=\"Seagulls waiting to eat cicadas\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sube-seagulls.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sube-seagulls-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No seagulls in this photo, just exuvia on a tree:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sueb-tree.jpg\" alt=\"Magicicada on a tree\" width=\"528\" height=\"396\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sueb-tree.jpg 528w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sueb-tree-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I live near the ocean and can testify that seagulls are bold and voracious eaters. They pose a threat to not just cicadas, but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2015\/08\/150817-seals-seagulls-animals-science-predators-prey\/\">seals<\/a> and even Jedi:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9t-slLl30E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These images go back to 2007 (Brood XIII). Sue had noticed that seagulls had taken a liking (maybe an obsession) to cicadas. Look at all those seagulls ready to swoop down (or up) and grab a cicada: No seagulls in this photo, just exuvia on a tree: I live near the ocean and can testify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brood-xiii","category-magicicada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505","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=10505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}