{"id":3709,"date":"2013-05-10T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T03:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T01:05:20","slug":"cicada-chimneys-and-a-nymph-under-a-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-chimneys-and-a-nymph-under-a-slate\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada chimneys and a nymph under a slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see any nymphs emerge and undergo ecdysis tonight, but I did find plenty of cicada chimneys and nymphs trapped under slates.<\/p>\n<p>Cicadas build chimneys above their holes, typically after it rains a lot and the soil becomes soft. The chimneys help keep water from rushing into their holes, and they keep ants and other menaces out. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100122.jpg\" alt=\"Brood II 2013 - Dan Mozgai - Cicada Chimneys\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100122.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100122-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100122-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100124.jpg\" alt=\"Brood II 2013 - Dan Mozgai - Cicada Chimneys\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100124.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100124-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100124-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100130.jpg\" alt=\"Brood II 2013 - Dan Mozgai - Cicada Chimneys\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100130.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100130-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/P5100130-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A good place to find cicada nymphs is under backyard slates (or similar objects that cover the ground). Flip over your slates and you might find a nymph tunneling their ways to the side of the slate. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/65942100\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/65942100\">Brood II 17 Year Cicada Nymph trapped under a slate<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cicadamania\">Cicada Mania<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see any nymphs emerge and undergo ecdysis tonight, but I did find plenty of cicada chimneys and nymphs trapped under slates. Cicadas build chimneys above their holes, typically after it rains a lot and the soil becomes soft. The chimneys help keep water from rushing into their holes, and they keep ants and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,728,2,674,155,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brood-ii","category-chimneys","category-magicicada","category-nymphs","category-periodical","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","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=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}