{"id":20186,"date":"2024-05-25T16:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T23:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=20186"},"modified":"2024-05-25T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T23:50:49","slug":"finding-cicada-nymphs-in-the-flower-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/finding-cicada-nymphs-in-the-flower-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding cicada nymphs in the flower garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was digging in a flower garden that is mostly inhabited by thick-stemmed Montauk Daisies, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Daj462JwCCQ\">I found many cicada nymphs<\/a>. The nearest tree is about 25 feet away &#8212; I guess any type of root will suffice for some cicadas.<\/p>\n<p>They seem weak and disorientated, which makes sense since they&#8217;ve lived underground their whole lives. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Daj462JwCCQ?si=o-u_j1hw6lT6WNdw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are Magicicada (Brood II), Neotibicen tibicen, Neotibicen lyricen, and Neotibicen linnei in the yard. I haven&#8217;t investigated which species these are yet, but I think it&#8217;s likely they&#8217;re not Magicicada because they were relatively large (bigger than a penny) and Brood II is 6 years away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was digging in a flower garden that is mostly inhabited by thick-stemmed Montauk Daisies, and I found many cicada nymphs. The nearest tree is about 25 feet away &#8212; I guess any type of root will suffice for some cicadas. They seem weak and disorientated, which makes sense since they&#8217;ve lived underground their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nymphs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20186","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=20186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}