I’ve been outside all weekend working on the cow fencing and only seen a few. I don’t hear them at all. Maybe because there’s not a lot of trees. Didn’t see any in the orchard. I will have to keep an eye out this next week.
Winds were down today, so you could hear them better, I could even hear them from in the house. We have lots of trees around us, they seem louder in the woods behind the house. But I’ve only seen a few live ones the last few days.
Swapped emails with @BlueBerry, he’s down in south KY area, said they are very loud in Somerset (Pulaski county). Lots of exoskeletons on bushes and shrubs as well.
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Came in to work here in Morehead today, one coworker said there’s thousands of cicadas in his yard east of town. I could vaguely hear them here on campus (Morehead State). Still haven’t seen many at our place in Lewis county.
Went into town today to get some baby chicks at the post office and was greeted by all these:
So it must just be the lack of trees near my place.
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I’ve noticed that the distant roar of the cicadas have gotten closer to us, and have invaded the groves of trees closest to us. Today I saw lots of them in my pear trees down by the barn. They are thick in my 30ft tall pear, and the sound is deafening. My Maxine pear is small enough to shake and when I did dozens of them flew out making a big racket.
They’re not in my smaller apple trees or large peach trees yet, but that may change in the next few days. I’m in the house and can still hear them.
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Uggg yep that’s how it goes.
Get a backpack blower and blow your trees a few times a day. It makes them go crazy. Wear a helmet and long clothes. They have attacked me in the past when I blow. They don’t bite, but have a hard, rough body casing and rough legs that hurt if they slam into your neck. And wear goggles for you eyes.
Not a perfect solution, but it can lessen the damage if you blow your trees a lot. (I think.)
Cicada damage after tree healed for 1 year.
Dunno about this…
"…cicadas are beneficial to tree health because the holes they create can lead to better moisture drainage into the soil and some natural pruning,’ Reall said.
These states can expect to see a 17-year periodical cicada emergence this spring - ABC News
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No sign of them over here (yet) in western KY (Christian Co.)
We had some last year… no major damage, but when I was cutting pecan & hickory scionwood earlier this year, there were some trees that I had to look around for 1-yr twigs that had not been hit badly.
Here in Oregon we have orchard cicadas. Guess why they’re named that? Until I joined this forum I didn’t know they were responsible for all the depressions, which later became infected with fireblight and anthracnose. They’re sneaky here. They don’t make nearly as much racket and I see a couple every year in most trees while thinning. I used to leave them there! And I lost a lot of trees. Now I feed them to my chickens.
they are out in central Pa now. putting netting over my tree tubes tomorrow, raining right now so they aren’t too loud at the present time.
They’re still pretty noisy here, but I haven’t seen too many of them on my trees thankfully. They’ve been out for just over 3 weeks now.
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