I wish I’d netted our trees at this point. We’ve already lost 6 of 8 maple saplings and all of the apple trees we planted last year.

That’s 19 trees in total, dead. The bugs bored right into the main trunks. All of them have those little grooves where they laid their eggs, and then the trunks just snapped and bent over, and the whole tree is dead.

What a waste. Almost two thousand dollars in newly planted trees, dead.

So mad now.

Anonymous wrote:I netted mine, or at least had my garden team do it. Brand new trees that will get really large and the cicadas would have taken a toll on the young branches. The effects would have been visible for decades. Now my trees will grow up strong and beautiful.

No sprays or any poison though. Ever.

Nets are soon to come off.

No, they wouldn’t. You have more dollars than sense.

I netted mine, or at least had my garden team do it. Brand new trees that will get really large and the cicadas would have taken a toll on the young branches. The effects would have been visible for decades. Now my trees will grow up strong and beautiful.

No sprays or any poison though. Ever.

Nets are soon to come off.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, what's this about? You disagree with people protecting young, newly-planted trees (which presumably they paid for) from cicada eggs? Why? It seems logical to me but I admit I'm biased since I absolutely netted the two trees I just planted in April.

I don't care about people netting trees but cicadas are certainly not a tzunami, earthquake or a tornado, something that strikes suddenly unannounced. these things come up every 17 years, we all knew since 2004 that they would have all come out in May and you planted new trees in April?????? why don't just wait until September or next year.

NP here. When you order trees in the Fall, as many do, they don't arrive until planting time.

I can certainly understand those who like me ordered trees in the Fall of 2020 because they were just trying to get through the dark days of the election time, pandemic and the coming winter--so they forgot about the coming of the cicadas. I know I did.

Anonymous wrote:Tents are like masks. Only liberals or elites would tent a tree.

^^There you have it ladies and gentlemen. The trolling moron in their natural habitat.

I did not net my trees and there is quite a bit of damage on my young trees. Lots of twigs and branches have browned. Interestingly, so have some of my landscaping bushes.

I have a particularly large amount of cicadas on my property because of not using herbicide, fertilizer etc. My trees are covered from top to bottom with cicadas and they are buzzing around like bees.

Seeing so many white fungus butts ones too. Maybe they are attracting the others with their sex antics.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, what's this about? You disagree with people protecting young, newly-planted trees (which presumably they paid for) from cicada eggs? Why? It seems logical to me but I admit I'm biased since I absolutely netted the two trees I just planted in April.

I don't care about people netting trees but cicadas are certainly not a tzunami, earthquake or a tornado, something that strikes suddenly unannounced. these things come up every 17 years, we all knew since 2004 that they would have all come out in May and you planted new trees in April?????? why don't just wait until September or next year.

I can't tell if any of these responses are from the OP. I'm really curious why OP cares.

Anonymous wrote:I'm about to net my trees. I'm so tired of the squirrels and birds stealing our apples and peaches. We're trying to avoid that this year and harvest our own fruit for a change. You can hate our nets all you want.

I've always wanted fruit trees! I don't blame you for netting- hope you have a good harvest.

Anonymous wrote:I suspect he tree netters are using insecticides to try to kill cicadas and now birds are dying in record numbers.

I think what's happening is the creatures that usually eat/clear the dead fledglings are full/busy eating cicadas. And maybe more fledglings survived in the nest because of the abundant food but now can't make it as adults. Fledglings have a high mortality rate, that's just how it goes.

Also no one would try to kill cicadas. They're already dead or on their way to dying! What good would it do?

Anonymous wrote:I had newly planted trees (less than one year) in the last go round with Brood X. I was advised not to worry about netting since the trees were not a preferred cicada target. Ended up losing two of three trees; third one recovered after several leafless/sickly years. I’m not going to judge anyone for netting trees. The damage is costly and unsightly. A net certainly doesn’t hurt or inconvenience the cicadas. Find something else to be holier-than-thou about, OP

I wish I’d netted mine now… but they were just a little too big, and too numerous. We’ve got tons of wilting and branch dying already. Our yard is going to look like we had a hurricane in a few more weeks.

Just for the record clover is actually really good for lawns and soil. In fact it used to be a main component in grass seed mixtures. It only became out of fashion in modern times, and thankfully the tide is turning and you can now find many homes with fully intentionally clovered Lawns.

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Anonymous wrote:Tents are like masks. Only liberals or elites would tent a tree.

So cicadas are the Republican spirit animal?

So that means that they’ll be dying off in a couple of weeks. Great.

I suspect he tree netters are using insecticides to try to kill cicadas and now birds are dying in record numbers.