{"id":2942,"date":"2012-11-10T09:29:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2020-03-25T19:33:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T02:33:54","slug":"cicada-turrets-or-chimneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-turrets-or-chimneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Turrets or Chimneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cicada nymphs create what we call turrets or chimneys above the tunnel hole where they will eventually emerge. These chimneys are made from soil. They are a positive indication of where cicada nymphs are underground and that they will emerge soon. Cicadas seem to build chimneys in wetter, muddier areas; in dry areas they will simply make holes at the surface. The chimneys will help keep water and mud from back-filling their holes, so they can continue to breathe, take a peek out and prepare to emerge. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Magicicada Tunnel (by Les Daniels):<\/strong><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11117\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img0069.jpg\" alt=\"Magicicada chimney\" width=\"256\" height=\"384\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img0069.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img0069-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magicicada chimney<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p><strong>A cicada tunnel in Bangkok Thailand (by Santisuk Vibul):<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/cicada-tunnel-view-from-top-Thailand-photo-by-Santisuk-Vibul.jpg\" alt=\"cicada tunnel view from top Thailand photo by Santisuk Vibul\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/cicada-tunnel-view-from-top-Thailand-photo-by-Santisuk-Vibul.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/cicada-tunnel-view-from-top-Thailand-photo-by-Santisuk-Vibul-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/cicada-tunnel-view-from-top-Thailand-photo-by-Santisuk-Vibul-768x575.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Three Magicicada chimneys (by Roy Troutman):<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/2008-roy-chimneys.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magicicada nymph turret by Roy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is video taken of a magicicada nymph turret. These turrets are often found in wet areas.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20985673\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/20985673\">Magicicada nymph turret<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1091845\">Roy Troutman<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cicada nymphs create what we call turrets or chimneys above the tunnel hole where they will eventually emerge. These chimneys are made from soil. They are a positive indication of where cicada nymphs are underground and that they will emerge soon. Cicadas seem to build chimneys in wetter, muddier areas; in dry areas they will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[728],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chimneys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","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=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}