Someone informed me on another thread about their damage to branches. Went out to look after and saw broke branches everywhere and even caught one in the act. They seem to favor stone fruit trees.
After searching all the old cicada threads it seems no one had an answer. Well this is a few years later, did anyone learn how to deal with them? Not interested in CBS, NBC, CNN and the rest advising me to eat them.
Are you spraying your trees? If you are using an insecticide it should protect them. Our extension is saying to spray every 3-4 days to prevent injury or every 7-10 days to reduce injury.
They are active for one month.
How do they work. Are they here for a couple years or just this one.
They will be back in 17 years. I believe many areas have multiple broods going though.
I just saw this article and it doesn’t seem like the person who wrote it,grows fruit trees,but it is interesting to learn some new information.Cicadas don’t live here in western Washington and having read about their noise and damage,it’s fine with me.
My wife has a family reunion near the intersection of brood XIX and XIII, and decided this is the year to go :(. My daughter hates insects.
This should be interesting.
Cicadas don’t bite but some might fly and land on you, causing surprise. They’re rather large and clunky insects.
I was curious if anyone had thoughts on if I need to tree-proof in the city?
I’m in Chicago and I grow in large containers on my 2nd floor balcony over an alley.
I understand that cicadas are emerging from the ground and seeking young trees.
There isn’t very much grass near me, and especially not grass that hasn’t been disturbed in the past 17 years. I am in the Wicker Park area if you’ve been to Chicago and their normally aren’t very many bugs/critters.
Should I still be worried about netting all my trees?
You have time.
They will not start attempting to lay eggs in your tree branches for at least a couple weeks into their emergence.
They have to grow and mate first, which takes time.
So just wait and see if you see any flying around.
Cicadas need trees and roots as part of its life cycle. I expect the higher the city density, the lower the density of trees (and consequently lower cicada density). I see more cicada damage on pencil thick branches so they may prefer to find and lay on those.