May 21, 2007
Master Gardener Cicada Reports
I received a couple of reports of emerging cicadas from two University of Illinois Extension Chicago Master Gardeners.
Master Gardener Clare Mostek of La Grange Park, Illinois reported that some cicadas emerged on Sunday, May 20.
A Master Gardener from the 2006 class who lives in Lyons, Illinois which is across Ogden Avenue from Riverside/Brookfield reports that on May 5 in their shade garden under a huge Silver Maple, I had well over 100 1/2 inch holes in the soil. I was planting and was digging up them by the handfuls. The neighborhood kids were having quite a time.
Friday, May 18th and Saturday May 19th, many cicadas on top of the soil, no wings, still in their shells. Sunday morning the 20th my sidewalk under the tree, the driveway was covered with them, some had wings, some what I would call dwarfed. The cold really affected them, they were alive, but slow. I had about 20 empty shells on the trunk of the maple tree.
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Posted by Ron Wolford at 8:10 PM |
