{"id":5469,"date":"2015-06-27T13:32:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T20:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=5469"},"modified":"2017-07-11T19:21:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T02:21:27","slug":"what-eats-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/what-eats-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"What eats cicadas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What eats cicadas?<\/strong> A better question is: what doesn&#8217;t eat cicadas?<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much every creature with a mouth will eat a cicada, given the chance. Even organisms without mouths like <a href=\"\/cicadas\/which-fungus-attacks-magicicadas-massospora-cicadina\/\">fungi will consume cicadas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People, pets, rodents, marsupials, reptiles, birds, fish, insects, arachnids &#8212; virtually any creature will eat them. <\/p>\n<p>Some insects are known for specifically preying on cicadas, for example, <strong><a href=\"\/cicadas\/category\/cicada-killer-wasps\/\">Cicada Killer Wasps<\/a><\/strong> are well known for capturing cicadas for their larvae to eat them. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What eats them when they&#8217;re underground?<\/strong> When they&#8217;re underground they&#8217;re often eaten by moles and other furry insectivores, but enough of them escape the moles for the species to survive. <\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"\/cicadas\/are-cicadas-safe-to-eat\/\">are cicadas safe to eat<\/a> if you&#8217;re planning a cicada buffet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What eats cicadas? A better question is: what doesn&#8217;t eat cicadas? Pretty much every creature with a mouth will eat a cicada, given the chance. Even organisms without mouths like fungi will consume cicadas. People, pets, rodents, marsupials, reptiles, birds, fish, insects, arachnids &#8212; virtually any creature will eat them. Some insects are known for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faqs","category-massospora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469","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=5469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}