{"id":19885,"date":"2024-04-29T19:57:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T02:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=19885"},"modified":"2024-04-29T19:58:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T02:58:22","slug":"cicada-t-shirt-of-the-day-massospora-activated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-t-shirt-of-the-day-massospora-activated\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada t-shirt of the day: Massospora Activated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another cicada t-shirt that you can buy is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/massospora_activated_cicada_t_shirt-256532221850329008\">Massospora Activated<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/massospora_activated_cicada_t_shirt-256532221850329008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MASSOSPORA.webp\" alt=\"MASSOSPORA activated\" width=\"800\" height=\"638\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MASSOSPORA.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MASSOSPORA-300x239.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MASSOSPORA-768x612.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is the meaning of this?! Well, Magicicada periodical cicadas contract a fungus called Massospora cicadina  during sexual contact. It turns their rumps into a white chalky mess and sends them into a mating frenzy.  <\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Massospora cicadina:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/new-paper-massospora-cicadina-hijacks-the-sexual-signals-of-periodical-cicadas\/\">New paper: Massospora cicadina hijacks the sexual signals of periodical cicadas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/which-fungus-attacks-magicicadas-massospora-cicadina\/\">Which fungus attacks Magicicadas? Massospora cicadina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/discovery-of-psychoactive-plant-mushroom-alkaloids-in-ancient-fungal-cicada-pathogens\/\">Discovery of psychoactive plant &#038; mushroom alkaloids in ancient fungal cicada pathogens<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another cicada t-shirt that you can buy is Massospora Activated! What is the meaning of this?! Well, Magicicada periodical cicadas contract a fungus called Massospora cicadina during sexual contact. It turns their rumps into a white chalky mess and sends them into a mating frenzy. Learn more about Massospora cicadina: New paper: Massospora cicadina hijacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicada-mania","category-massospora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19885","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=19885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}