{"id":229,"date":"2021-05-20T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/20\/cicadas-arrive-in-northern-virginia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:48:33","slug":"cicadas-arrive-in-northern-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/20\/cicadas-arrive-in-northern-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicadas Arrive in Northern Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEimvndEG_ec1vy9gT62nU4u8gEbKFF86fTg-DI_6ika3_F78fmHyNfLghbP8cAKQQ2a3M67qqXYAC5p4c6JBRKmw2Xo5KoRv9IdWLRDnLeHzPSu6YEeL_g2xGox0HUi9EY0hPmwPap9020\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"631\" data-original-width=\"677\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Usually the only bugs we talk about here are dead bugs (components with their leads up on circuit boards) or perhaps CW keying devices. But in the last podcast I mentioned the arrival in Northern Virginia of Brood X Cicadas. They are coming to the surface after 17 years underground. This morning I found this amazing animation that explains the lifecycle of these fascinating creatures. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>This morning Elisa mercifully took the time to take several dozen of them off the tires of her car. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Here is the animation. Just scroll down to follow the life cycle. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Be sure to turn on the audio! <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/interactive\/2021\/cicadas-lifecycle-brood-x\/?fbclid=IwAR39n951RzQfNPvr3iurHjCDcnDEj2ues0c1UmJFiYV8k5vwO2NZoekKN18\"><b>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/interactive\/2021\/cicadas-lifecycle-brood-x\/?fbclid=IwAR39n951RzQfNPvr3iurHjCDcnDEj2ues0c1UmJFiYV8k5vwO2NZoekKN18<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually the only bugs we talk about here are dead bugs (components with their leads up on circuit boards) or perhaps CW keying devices. But in the last podcast I mentioned the arrival in Northern Virginia of Brood X Cicadas. They are coming to the surface after 17 years underground. This morning I found this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/20\/cicadas-arrive-in-northern-virginia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cicadas Arrive in Northern Virginia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cicadas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}