{"id":3960,"date":"2016-06-26T01:01:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T08:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2024-05-05T07:42:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T14:42:48","slug":"got-flagging-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/got-flagging-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Flagging? Report flagging and egg nests."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got flagging? <strong>Flagging<\/strong> happens when tree branches wilt or die due to cicada egg laying, resulting in bunches of brown leaves. Don&#8217;t worry, this will not cause trees to die, unless they are small and weak trees. Flagging can actually do a tree a favor, by removing its weakest branches.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YJZxr46e388\">video of cicada flagging<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YJZxr46e388?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>A photo of flagging:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Periodical-Cicada-Flagging-3.jpg\" alt=\"Periodical Cicada Flagging\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Periodical-Cicada-Flagging-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Periodical-Cicada-Flagging-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got flagging? Flagging happens when tree branches wilt or die due to cicada egg laying, resulting in bunches of brown leaves. Don&#8217;t worry, this will not cause trees to die, unless they are small and weak trees. Flagging can actually do a tree a favor, by removing its weakest branches. Some video of cicada flagging: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,1053,2,289,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-science","category-flagging","category-magicicada","category-ovipositing","category-periodical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","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=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}