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Re: Cicada damage

 A few
>cicadas did get through the bottom of the net but no extensive damage from
>them.  Eight years later the trees are fully recovered and quite nice, but at
>the time I thought the cure was worse than the ailment.
>
>Bill Lee

Thanks, Bill, its comforting to hear.  I don't mind the damage so much on
the established trees, but we have a lot of youngsters, one and 2 gallon
plants, and they are being killed nearly to the trunk.
This is the first year we would have had fruit on the crabs and nearly all
of it is gone.  On the bright side, the magnolias (Betty and M. virginiana)
are untouched.
Of course, we also have birds so obscenely fat from gorging on cicadas that
they can barely fly.  I just tell them to enjoy it now, there will be no
berries this winter.


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