They're coming! Are you ready?

[JudyB]

Where did you get your netting, Judy?

amazon, most greenhouse stores don't have stock. And be careful shopping on ebay and amazon, make sure that it's not shipping from China, as the event would be over before it arrives.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0885WXD62/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Garden-Tailor-Mosquito-Netting-Vegetables/dp/B08GXFY587/ref=pd_ybh_a_13?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GTQH2M0PGGSCE6D8RF3A

 

[JudyB]

Contact does kill but main method of action in ingestion. I have been using it lately because many of the plants I have have sensitivities to stronger insecticides It is old school but I just it a few weeks ago on various things infected a few JMs, including an odd scale, and everything is clean of pests now. I think if I spray when I first see the little sh....ts, I will get some control. Sevin is nice because you can spray it week or strong and you can reapply fairly often. Guess we will see but when I brought this cicada thing up a month or so back, I didn't see a lot of ideas bantered about.
Of course a lot of people aren't going to tolerate white stuff on their leaves. I don't like it, but hopefully the cicada won't either.
Best of luck to all in these cicada days.

From what I understand they don't actually eat the plants. So that method may not work, and there are soooo many of them.

 

[HorseloverFat]

I have a half-moat for protection.



I hope it’s enough.

 

[Underdog]

I'm hoping the projections for Ohio are correct showing my area less affected than the 2016 brood.
I hope the little buggers can read a map... I'm in Coshocton.
Deciduous trees, like elm, chestnut, ash, maple, and oak, are the preferred host trees of periodical cicadas. They will flag the branches of these trees, but only young ones are at risk.

 

[penumbra]

From what I understand they don't actually eat the plants. So that method may not work, and there are soooo many of them.

Understood. They have been eating for 17 years so I know they are not hungry. They just want to breed. I am using it because I think it will inhibit the female laying eggs on a surface that is coated with Sevin. I will be closely monitoring the event and I do have frost blankets and some netting.

 

[JudyB]

I'm hoping the projections for Ohio are correct showing my area less affected than the 2016 brood.
I hope the little buggers can read a map... I'm in Coshocton.
Deciduous trees, like elm, chestnut, ash, maple, and oak, are the preferred host trees of periodical cicadas. They will flag the branches of these trees, but only young ones are at risk.

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Looks like I get the best of both worlds, I'm right where the 16 and 21 line crosses at Fairfield/Pickaway . Good luck to you!

 

[Japonicus]

I'm right where the 16 and 21 line crosses

 

[Paradox]

These are different than the yearly cycle of cicadas that we get in late summer every year. I am glad to see that you are out of the area for this mass event, although the reason for that is rather sad.

Understood. We had some the year that another brood (the 14 year ones I think) emerged 3 years ago.

 

[BigBen]

We get Cicadids here every year and it varies from year to year how plentiful they are. I have never had a problem with them on my bonsai *knocks wood*

From the Wikipedia article:


Guess I dont have to worry about this brood

Yup, looks like we're safe for now.
Knock on wood...

 

[Maiden69]

I was stationed in Maryland the last time they came out... they left their exoskeleton on everything.

 

[penumbra]

I haven't done the math but I know when I was somewhere in my late teens / earl 20s, a situation of the roads being slippery with them in NO VA. I guess three 17 year broods would make that 51 years ago. I would have been 20 going on 21. That sounds right.
It is an interesting phenomena.

 

[Cadillactaste]

I placed a call to my local nursery. They said it's effecting west Ohio...not our area. We will see minimal annual like always. But Phil even said the large cycle for our area will hit 2033. Not before. They aren't covering anything at the landscape nursery. And they have nice specimen trees for sale.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Northern IL, we have Brood XIII, brood 13. We're not due until 2024.

The cicadas are not as abundant as they used to be. Lawn care treatments for Japanese beetles and such have greatly reduced abundance. Where they emerge, there tends to be very high density, but now it's not an entire region. Areas, like suburban lawns, golf courses, and other "managed areas" will be silent, because the pesticides used to create perfect suburban lawns kill off the larva while they are underground sucking on tree roots.

Where they emerge, they will be in high numbers, but they won't be everywhere. You might have to drive to someplace where no lawn chemicals are used to hear them.

Lawn chemicals are also the reason fire flies are not as abundant as they used to be.

 

[just.wing.it]

I can't stand those lawn chemical companies....unreal.
People spraying that shit on the ground that filters their well water.....wondering why little Timmy has 10 mental disorders....

 

[barrosinc]

these cicadas are amazing! I didn't know about these things. Do they work like clockwork? 17 years underground and all emerge in the same year?? Seems like the biblical plague!

 

[Japonicus]

In the state of Virginia you can buy this, or so the internet says...

these cicadas are amazing! I didn't know about these things. Do they work like clockwork? 17 years underground and all emerge in the same year?? Seems like the biblical plague!

This guy says (sih-kah-da) we pronounce it (sih-kay-duh)

 

[Mara of dragon clan]

If they are in your area, they will be hatching soon. I’d guess next week or shortly after where I live. There are some places selling out quickly of insect screening...

Whaaat what do we have to do

 

[drawnbyjared]

Yikes. This map includes Michigan... thread has me nervous! Great topic. I have limited defenses...

Looking at a more detailed map, looks like you'll be safe in GR. Mostly just the very southern edge of Michigan, hopefully not up here to Kalamazoo!

God help anyone in Indiana.

 

[Lazylightningny]

I have cicada killer wasps in my neighborhood. They're enormous. So maybe more of them this year too. You should see them flying off like dumbo with a cicada in their clutches, struggling to stay in the air.

 

[LittleDingus]

I have cicada killer wasps in my neighborhood. They're enormous. So maybe more of them this year too. You should see them flying off like dumbo with a cicada in their clutches, struggling to stay in the air.

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A cicada killer was the pride of my 8th grade insect collection

I happened to hear it kill the cicada and see it fall to the ground. Shortly thereafter it flew nearly a quarter mile carrying that thing. I chased it the whole time. A bug big enough to carry a bug that is an inch or more long can be seen from quite a distance!

Cicada killers nest in the ground. Once I caught up to it and watched where it dragged the carcus into the ground, it was a simply matter of finding a large jar, placing it over the hole...and waiting.

All the boys were jealous...all the girls were terrified...when I gave my presentation to the class

Different story, I remember going to Brookfield Zoo near Chicago when they last emerged there. The place was crazy! My rambunctious son was running down a path and jumped up to pull a branch...and a crapton of bugs fell from the tree onto everyone! Including a woman walking a baby stroller!! Sigh...I used to have to apologize a lot for that kid