Anonymous wrote:I keep hearing people saying there won’t be cicadas where the land has been disturbed, but at our house in our neighborhood there’s lots of new builds with in the last five years and trust me we have hundreds of cicadas in our yard alone! Our neighbors tree had what looked like no joke thousands of shells on the ground and bugs almost completely covering the tree trunk. Looks like the ground wasn’t disturbed far down enough to impact the cicadas.
Yes, if there was a tree there 17-34 years ago, the cicadas are still there, they may have difficulty implanting their eggs this time around though. Very sad consequence of development that does not replace trees.