[AT] O/T 17 year locusts

[Rob Gray]

They are harmless to crops, but I recall the last time they were here 
(darn I was only 21 at the time!) that they damage hardwood trees' new 
growth and one year old growth branches. They lay eggs in the softer 
wood branches and can do a good bit of damage to the tree, but it does 
not seem to kill the tree.

Rob

Mike Sloane wrote:

> Actually, aside from the noise and mess, they are completely harmless. 
> They emerge, mate, lay their eggs on the ends of tree branches, and 
> die. That is where the mess comes in - lots and lots of very big dead 
> bugs.
>
> Mike
>
> Ralph Goff wrote:
>
>> I hope those cicadas you guys have there do not eat like our hordes of
>> grasshoppers did last summer. I think they might be related but I don't
>> recall much sound from the hoppers. Now crickets are a different 
>> story (or
>> song). Crickets have a real rythmic chirping that some people do find
>> annoying. I hardly notice them and they don't bother me at all.
>> So far I don't think this year's crop of grasshoppers have hatched , at
>> least I haven't seen any yet. The predictions are not good though. 
>> With the
>> high population last year they laid plenty of eggs just waiting in the
>> ground to hatch. The cool spring has delayed them but any day now I 
>> expect
>> to see the little green hoppers starting to feed on the new crops 
>> growing in
>> the fields.
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
>> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: John Cullom <jhcullom at adelphia.net>
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 4:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] O/T 17 year locusts
>>
>>
>>
>>> They've been around Baltimore/Washington for the last month. 
>>> Thousands of
>>> 'em, & you can hear them from inside your car traveling down the 
>>> highway
>>> with the windows up & the radio on. They make 2 kinds of noise, the
>>
>>
>> familiar
>>
>>> hissing sound & also a kind of high pitched whistle, like in the old
>>> Japanese monster movies with the overgrown bugs. But now with the 
>>> cooler
>>> weather we've been having, they've pretty much died off. Haven't had 
>>> a one
>>> up here in Westminster though. I work in the fire department in 
>>> Baltimore
>>> County, & we've had 2 car wrecks blamed on the cicadas flying in &
>>
>>
>> startling
>>
>>> the drivers.
>>> John
>>> Westminster, Md.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
>>>
>>>> I watched a little golf this afternoon which was being played
>>>> somewhere in Ohio. The noise from the 17 year locusts - cicadas - made
>>>> it difficult to hear what was being said sometimes. I guess this is
>>>> the year for these things to show up but we don't have any yet. Does
>>>> anyone anywhere but Ohio already have them up and making noise?  Or
>>>> are they only by that one golf course and nowhere else?  ;-)
>>>
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