Preparing for cicada

[Anonymous]

What are you doing?
Netting? And what should we net?

[Anonymous]

Nothing

[Anonymous]

I've decided to do nothing and let nature do its thing.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely nothing. There has been plenty of new construction and loss of mature trees in my neighborhood since 2004 so I’m not even sure we’ll get that many.

[Anonymous]

I will protect my younger fruit trees with insect barrier netting.

Other than that I am just waiting for the fun to begin. The cicadas are a treat.

[Anonymous]

No, you don’t need to do anything.

Except buy beans and toilet paper.

[Anonymous]

Omg. Chill.

[Anonymous]

Googling recipes

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cicada-recipes_n_3272597

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing

+1 OP. Just sit back and enjoy! Not everything in the world is a problem that needs to be solved or a project that needs to be managed.

[Anonymous]

Remember those beetle bags people used to put in their yards?

[Anonymous]

There was some sort of caterpillar infestation in NY in the 70's (gypsy moths??) and my mom offered my a nickel for every one that I picked off her plants. When I brought her bags and bags of wriggly, half dead caterpillars in plastic bread bags, she refused to check my math and just handed me whatever I said I was owed. I remember carefully picking up each one with a stick and dumping it into my bag.

Just a thought if you want to keep your kids busy for a while.

[Anonymous]

Bought them new patio furniture and getting some new lighting installed. Every it goes should be delivered and set up just in time for them to enjoy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was some sort of caterpillar infestation in NY in the 70's (gypsy moths??) and my mom offered my a nickel for every one that I picked off her plants. When I brought her bags and bags of wriggly, half dead caterpillars in plastic bread bags, she refused to check my math and just handed me whatever I said I was owed. I remember carefully picking up each one with a stick and dumping it into my bag.

Just a thought if you want to keep your kids busy for a while.

Paying them to bag cicadas? Why not pay them to bag rocks?

[Anonymous]

We planted a lot of apparently vulnerable shrubs last Spring and Fall. We will be netting them in a couple of weeks.

You can buy nets on Amazon and put them on mid to late April.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was some sort of caterpillar infestation in NY in the 70's (gypsy moths??) and my mom offered my a nickel for every one that I picked off her plants. When I brought her bags and bags of wriggly, half dead caterpillars in plastic bread bags, she refused to check my math and just handed me whatever I said I was owed. I remember carefully picking up each one with a stick and dumping it into my bag.

Just a thought if you want to keep your kids busy for a while.

Paying them to bag cicadas? Why not pay them to bag rocks?

Paying kids to collect rocks is also common? I’ve paid kids to collect all kinds of things. Seashells. Walnuts.