Periodic (17-year) Cicadas

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gardenwife Newark, OH(Zone 5b) May 11, 2004

OSU has an article on "dog days" and periodic cicadas out: http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2137.html

Looks like it's western Ohio's time: Franklin county on west, according to the map. We still might get them in our part of Licking County, because in 1999 I don't recall seeing them much until we went to far eastern Licking County.

Come on in and post, even if you're not from Ohio; if any of you DG folks would post your local extension office's info regarding cicada emergence, many would benefit.

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Iowagal CHARITON, IA(Zone 5a) May 12, 2004

Oh my, I can remember when we had these visitors. We had just completed our new house and had planted over 300 new trees and bushes. I lost alot of limbs out of the trees that were 3 years old. Alot of them looked like newly planted sticks again as everytime the locusts crawled on the underside of the little limbs (I am talking from pencil size to thumb sized here) and laid their eggs there was a long scar of maybe 1 1/2". The tips of the branches generally died back to this invasion of the soft tissue and with the strong winds we have here they just snapped off during the winter. Lots of damage and our extension office (where I used to work 30 years ago) said they would not harm the trees at all. If you were silly enough to be outside with them they were deafening. The shrill screeching was horrible - one could not here themselves even think! I was in the process of building several terraced and elevated planting beds at the time and had to quit during the evening - just to think!!!

Good luck with your landscaping - I am not a chemically inclined person - so if they show up - my trees are bigger and maybe can take the abuse better.

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langbr Lenexa, KS(Zone 6a) May 13, 2004

Kimberley--If my memory serves the Kansas City areas last wave was 1996. I'll see what I can find on the KSU website.

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langbr Lenexa, KS(Zone 6a) May 13, 2004

Ok...I was off a couple of years. It was 1998. Here's the KSU site on the periodic cicadas which interestingly references the Ohio State webpage you provided.

http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_hfrr/extensn/problems/17YearCicada.htm

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