{"id":5546,"date":"2015-07-05T07:41:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T14:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=5546"},"modified":"2018-09-05T20:59:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T03:59:29","slug":"are-cicadas-attracted-to-the-sound-of-lawnmowers-and-other-machinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/are-cicadas-attracted-to-the-sound-of-lawnmowers-and-other-machinery\/","title":{"rendered":"Are cicadas attracted to the sound of lawnmowers and other machinery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/17powertool.gif\" alt=\"Cicadas on Man\" width=\"260\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3521 float-right\" \/> Are cicadas attracted to the sound of lawnmowers and other machinery? Yes! Cicadas, particularly Magicicada periodical cicadas, are attracted to lawnmowers, weed-whackers, leaf blowers, hedge trimmers, power drills, etc. If it is loud and vibrates, cicadas will be attracted to it. Why? Most likely because they think your tool is a particularly impressive periodical cicada chorusing center, so males want to join in with the chorus and females want to mate with the particularly impressive males.<\/p>\n<p>So, next time you&#8217;ve got the old angle grinder out, don&#8217;t be surprised if a cicada lands on your shoulder.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are cicadas attracted to the sound of lawnmowers and other machinery? Yes! Cicadas, particularly Magicicada periodical cicadas, are attracted to lawnmowers, weed-whackers, leaf blowers, hedge trimmers, power drills, etc. If it is loud and vibrates, cicadas will be attracted to it. Why? Most likely because they think your tool is a particularly impressive periodical cicada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288,281,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior","category-faqs","category-magicicada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546","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=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}