{"id":1145,"date":"2010-08-15T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T15:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2020-03-23T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T00:51:14","slug":"cicada-alphabet-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-alphabet-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Alphabet: F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>F is for flagging<\/strong>. Flagging is the term for when leaves of a tree die as a result of oviposition (when the cicada lays eggs in the branches of trees).  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/1523046.jpg\" alt=\"Flagging\" width=\"265\" height=\"389\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/1523046.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/1523046-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto credit: Daniel Herms, The Ohio State University, Bugwood.org (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestryimages.org\/browse\/detail.cfm?imgnum=1523046\">Forestry Images<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Floury Baker<\/strong>, aka Aleeta curvicosta, is an Australian cicada. It has excellent camouflage, as you can see from the photo: <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/razorgrindersm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Floury Baker by Michelle Thompson\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/razorgrindersm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/razorgrindersm.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>Photo credit: Michelle Thompson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fidicina<\/strong> is a Genus of cicadae. Here is a photo of a Fidicina mannifera from Brazil:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cigarra-Fidicina-mannifera-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Fidicina mannifera from Brazil, Photo by Leonardo Milhomem.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cigarra-Fidicina-mannifera-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cigarra-Fidicina-mannifera-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cigarra-Fidicina-mannifera.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>Photo by Leonardo Milhomem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Formotosena<\/strong> is a Genus of cicada. Here is a photo of a Formotosena montivaga from Thailand:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cic0013formotosenamontivaga-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Formotosena montivaga (Distant, 1889)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cic0013formotosenamontivaga-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cic0013formotosenamontivaga.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>Photo by Michel Chantraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F is for flagging. Flagging is the term for when leaves of a tree die as a result of oviposition (when the cicada lays eggs in the branches of trees). Photo credit: Daniel Herms, The Ohio State University, Bugwood.org (Forestry Images). The Floury Baker, aka Aleeta curvicosta, is an Australian cicada. It has excellent camouflage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicada-alphabet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","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=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}