{"id":5152,"date":"2014-11-20T08:01:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T15:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2019-06-30T06:14:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T13:14:51","slug":"the-excavation-skills-of-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/the-excavation-skills-of-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"The excavation skills of cicadas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cicadas spend most of their lives, as nymphs, underground. The large forelegs of cicada nymphs are adapted to digging through soil. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/foreleg.png\" alt=\"cicada foreleg\" width=\"640\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/foreleg.png 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/foreleg-300x249.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/><small>Image from The Periodical Cicada: An Account of Cicada Septendecim, Its Natural Enemies and the Means of Preventing Its Injury by C.L. Marlatt. 1898.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>These videos demonstrate Magicicada nymphs digging through soil. <\/p>\n<h2>Magicicada nymph excavating tunnel by Roy<\/h2>\n<p>This magicicada nymph is excavating a make shift tunnel sandwiched between two pieces of plexiglass.:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20998522\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Magicicada nymph emerging from burrow by Roy<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/21247341\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/21247341\">Magicicada nymph emerging from burrow<\/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>Cicadas spend most of their lives, as nymphs, underground. The large forelegs of cicada nymphs are adapted to digging through soil. Image from The Periodical Cicada: An Account of Cicada Septendecim, Its Natural Enemies and the Means of Preventing Its Injury by C.L. Marlatt. 1898. These videos demonstrate Magicicada nymphs digging through soil. Magicicada nymph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicada-anatomy","category-magicicada","category-roy-troutman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152","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=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}