Re: cicadas

In a message dated 8/17/02 12:47:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lwallpe@juno.com writes:


> And if drought isn't bad enough, I think we are now having an off year
> erruption of cicadas.

Linda lives right in Cincinnati, while I'm about 10 miles east of the city.  
In 1989 Cincinnati had its plague of cicadas--they were everywhere, the air 
was thick with them, and you couldn't drive or walk anywhere without 
crunching them. In 1990 I moved to my 10-mile-out location. We planted lots 
of ornamentals that year and then learned that the cicada brood out here is 
one year later than the one in Cincinnati, so went through it two years in a 
row. The ornamentals were scarred, but have all survived.

There are always a few cicadas around between emergence of the brood, which 
is supposed to occur every 17 years or so. But like Linda, I have noticed 
many more out this year than would be expected.  I wonder if the dryness is 
affecting that.  I think too that there are other kinds of cicadas that have 
a 7-year and a 13-year cycle.

My dog Tristan, a beagle, thinks cicadas are delicious.
Bill Lee

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