Cicada Warning?

[guest222]

http://www.qdmaforums.com/showthread.php?t=41042

I wasn't growing 13 years ago, and every 3 or 4 years I notice a few but they don't seem to mess with anything. What should we expect to see from this? Any reason to worry? I am in middle Tn and southern Kentucky. Please share your experience and knowledge. Thankyou 222

 

[guest222]

“After the males attract females with their song, mating occurs and females lay eggs inside the branches of woody plants, using a knife-like ovipositor to slit twigs,” Hale says. “A single female cicada can lay anywhere from 24 to 28 eggs in each slit she cuts, and she can cut anywhere from five to 20 slits in a single twig.”

The entomologist adds that the egg punctures pose a threat to young trees.
“Apple, pear, dogwood, oak, and hickory are their favorite hosts,” Hale says. “The punctures can damage young transplanted trees, causing the twig tips to wilt and die.”

 

[grimcreeper]

I've only seen them on larger hardwood trees. I'm about 98% positive you won't have problems on MJ. I'm in a similar location and it's never been any sort of issue.

 

[paulo73]

No worries whatsoever they only go for larger woody stems.
They will leave your plants alone but they are damn noisy

 

[guest222]

Thank you for the replys. Glad to hear that they havn't given you guys problems. Now I'm hoping they don't eat leaves like grass hoppers do.

 

[Littleleaf]

Nope! They just breed and die. The shells you see on the trees are their larvle stage. Thats when they are eating.

All that noise is just for SEX

Thank you for the replys. Glad to hear that they havn't given you guys problems. Now I'm hoping they don't eat leaves like grass hoppers do.

 

[:-(]

I always thought they came out of the ground

 

[guest222]

"Eggs hatch six to seven weeks after they are laid, and the newly hatched nymphs drop to the ground and work their way into the soil. Nymphs grow slowly and feed on sap from roots until the spring of their 13th year, when they emerge to start the cycle again."

 

[hamstring]

Get out and enjoy its only once every 13 years. There are two main types in the US the annual cicada that you hear every year and is more of a green coloration and the periodic that comes up in huge numbers every 13 years and have a purple coloration. I think it was 3 yrs ago we had ours and in rural places the noise was deafening. I can’t explain the sight and sound you have to be there.

In my area there are old-timer stories where they had to be swept off the streets they were so thick. Problem is with the destruction of hardwood forests so goes the huge numbers that the old-timers talk about. Like mentioned they only breed and die no destruction.

 

[Carsonroach]

Could this be from its eggs

 

[EastBayGrower]

^ thats fuckin weird....

 

[greendiamond9]

I found this one on a volunteer today. He flew away as soon as I reached for him and I didn't see any damage so I think he was just passing through.