Gardening during the cicada uprising

[Anonymous]

I've been planning a vegetable garden for this year and it just hit me: the cicadas are going to be coming out right during planting time, and seeds and plants will need lots of watering etc. Can anyone who gardened during the last cicada brood tell me how bad it's going to be having to go out and tend garden with the cicadas? I remember the cicadas but didn't have a garden then and pretty much just ran from the car to the house.

[Anonymous]

I notice no difference other than seeing an abundance of holes they leave behind. Near trees. Not gardens.

[Anonymous]

Op here. My question is actually more about my personal squeamishness than t he garden. last time the cicadas were here I spent NO time outside. I'm just envisioning cicadas stuck in my hair and crawling up my leg and looking for someone to tell me it won't be so bad. I guess I can do that myself.

OP, it won't be so bad.

Problem solved. Thanks for listening.

[Anonymous]

I was doing some weeding yesterday and I was terrified... but I am a total wimp about bugs. I didn't see anything scary.

[Anonymous]

They get defensive when they feel their homes be invaded. They can swarm you. Be very careful when digging and wear a hair net so they don't burrow into your hair. Bright colors repel them.

[Anonymous]

Nothing a nice trowel won't solve... I fear for my two maple saplings, though.

[Anonymous]

Think about getting a sprinkler that you can turn on from the hose spigot and then you can minimize your time outside. I do t think it will be that bad, and cicadas are harmless, but if bugs freak you out, they freak you out do may as well avoid it.