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How to Protect Your Garden from Periodical Cicadas
06.06.2023 - 18:47 / gardenerspath.com / Sylvia Dekker
The Magic of Periodical Cicadas and How to Prevent Garden Damage Magicicada spp.The loud song of a cicada buzzing in the heat is one sound that takes me right back to childhood summers spent in Ontario.
Somehow, hearing their shrill solos made the sun seem even hotter than it was.
But we aren’t talking about those annual summertime vocalists in this article.
We’re talking about the miracle of periodical cicadas, when every 13 or 17 years, thousands of these noisy bugs emerge in the late spring, and sing all at once.
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These bugs do suck plant juices and lay eggs in tree branches, so you may wonder what this massive emergence means for your garden.
Ready to witness this amazing event? Should you protect your trees? Keep reading to find out!
Here’s what we’ll cover:
What Are Periodical Cicadas?Cicadas are bugs from the Cicadidae family and one of the many types of plant sucking insects that make up the Hemiptera, or true bug, order.
People often refer to any type of insect as a bug, but the term “true bug” is actually reserved by entomologists for insects with piercing-sucking mouthparts and “half-wings,” where a part of one pair of wings is tough, a part is membranous, and the second pair is also membranous.
The type that sang through the summers of my childhood are dog-day cicadas (Tibicen spp.), and these appear annually.
Periodical cicadas belong to seven species in the Magicicada genus that have synchronized life cycles, meaning all or nearly all members of a species emerge from the ground as adults one year, and are completely absent otherwise.
Three Magicicada species surface every 17 years, and these are mainly
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