{"id":16214,"date":"2021-04-17T10:39:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T17:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=16214"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:01:45","slug":"new-book-the-cicadas-are-coming-invasion-of-the-periodical-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/new-book-the-cicadas-are-coming-invasion-of-the-periodical-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: The Cicadas Are Coming!: Invasion of the Periodical Cicadas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new photo-illustrated periodical cicada book for kids will be available on April 26th: The Cicadas Are Coming!: Invasion of the Periodical Cicadas! by Doug Wechsler. I haven&#8217;t see it yet, but it looks promising.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s available on Amazon and Barnes &#038; Noble. <\/p>\n<p>Description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen a million bugs come out of the ground at once, children pay attention. Periodical cicadas don&#8217;t disappoint. Almost every animal in the area fills its stomach. Then after a month the feast and the cacophony suddenly stops.<\/p>\n<p>This book is about one of the oddest insect life cycles on the planet the periodical or 17-year cicada.<\/p>\n<p>The beautiful photographs and engaging text bring to life every aspect of this insect&#8217;s life from a unique view of the eggs inside a twig, to its transformation to the noisiest insect around. Author Doug Wechsler, once again, brings the natural world into focus for children.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Cicadas-are-Coming-Book.jpg\" alt=\"Cicadas are Coming\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Cicadas-are-Coming-Book.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Cicadas-are-Coming-Book-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Cicadas-are-Coming-Book-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new photo-illustrated periodical cicada book for kids will be available on April 26th: The Cicadas Are Coming!: Invasion of the Periodical Cicadas! by Doug Wechsler. I haven&#8217;t see it yet, but it looks promising. It&#8217;s available on Amazon and Barnes &#038; Noble. Description: When a million bugs come out of the ground at once, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16214","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=16214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}