{"id":208,"date":"2016-03-18T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2018-06-12T17:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T17:04:59","slug":"cicadas-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/cicadas-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicadas Are Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-211\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cicada-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cicada\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/> Don&#8217;t let Cicadas destroy your trees and shrubs. Brood V emerges from its 17-year gestation this spring. And the nymphs will be hungry. You can protect young trees and shrubs with 1\/4-inch mesh <strong><a title=\"Buy Insect Netting to Block Cicadas\" href=\"\/cicada-netting.html\" target=\"_self\">insect netting<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Cicadas spend their brief life eating and mating. Females cut slits in small branches of deciduous trees laying up to a dozen eggs in each and causing the branch to die. A single female produces up to 600 eggs<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Wrap cicada netting completely around the tree or shrub then tie it off with <strong><a title=\"Buy Zip Ties to Secure Netting\" href=\"\/installation-accessories.html\" target=\"_self\">zip ties<\/a><\/strong> to keep insects from finding an entry path. \u00a0Cicadas are relatively large insects so 1\/4&#8243; mesh netting will keep them out. \u00a0You&#8217;ll still have to put up with the mating song of the males . . . but your trees and shrubs will escape damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let Cicadas destroy your trees and shrubs. Brood V emerges from its 17-year gestation this spring. And the nymphs will be hungry. You can protect young trees and shrubs with 1\/4-inch mesh insect netting. Cicadas spend their brief life<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/cicadas-are-coming\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industrialnetting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}