{"id":17019,"date":"2021-07-03T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T05:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=17019"},"modified":"2021-07-03T22:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T05:35:54","slug":"zombie-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/zombie-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Cicadas??!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/05-missing-the-body.jpg\" alt=\"M. septendecim missing the body\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/05-missing-the-body.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/05-missing-the-body-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/05-missing-the-body-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Magicicada cicadas are often the victims of bird attacks or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/which-fungus-attacks-magicicadas-massospora-cicadina\/\">fungus infestation<\/a>, which results in the removal of the cicada&#8217;s abdomen. Sometimes a bird removes the cicadas head. In both cases, the cicada&#8217;s body keeps moving, and some people question whether or not the cicada then becomes a zombie. No, the cicada does not become a zombie.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-oc9_tZgqrs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magicicada cicadas are often the victims of bird attacks or fungus infestation, which results in the removal of the cicada&#8217;s abdomen. Sometimes a bird removes the cicadas head. In both cases, the cicada&#8217;s body keeps moving, and some people question whether or not the cicada then becomes a zombie. No, the cicada does not become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magicicada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019","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=17019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}