{"id":7767,"date":"2018-08-23T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:22:19","slug":"cordyceps-infected-citrus-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cordyceps-infected-citrus-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cordyceps infected Citrus Cicadas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another fungi story coming from the <a href=\"https:\/\/kassonlab.wordpress.com\">WVU Kasson Lab<\/a>: Cordyceps infected Citrus Cicadas (Diceroprocta apache). <\/p>\n<p>The story goes like this: because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/07\/massospora-parasite-drugs-its-hosts\/566324\/?utm_source=twb\">Ed Yong&#8217;s article<\/a> about the Massospora fungus that infects cicadas, someone sent the Kasson Lab photos, and then samples, of Diceroprocta apache (Citrus Cicadas) infected with a different type of fungus: Cordyceps. Looks like the lab is going to study this fungus, and I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll produce a paper.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another fungi story coming from the WVU Kasson Lab: Cordyceps infected Citrus Cicadas (Diceroprocta apache). The story goes like this: because of Ed Yong&#8217;s article about the Massospora fungus that infects cicadas, someone sent the Kasson Lab photos, and then samples, of Diceroprocta apache (Citrus Cicadas) infected with a different type of fungus: Cordyceps. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,18,1055],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cordyceps","category-diceroprocta","category-matt-kasson","tag-d-apache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","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=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}