Re: 17 year locusts

Kevin Webb (kwebb01@mail.coin.missouri.edu)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:46:17 -0600

I've never heard of cicadas harming vegetables. I know that they can hurt
trees (they deposit their eggs typically between a limb and the trunk). I'm
not sure what they eat in the interim, I've never seen them in our fields,
though.

Kevin Smyth wrote:

> Friends - This is the year for the 17 year locusts (I heard they were
> actually cicadas), and I am wondering what effect they might have on our
> vegetable crops here in SE Ohio. We grow 2.5 acres organic vegetables for
> a CSA here. Anybody know?
> Kevin Smyth
> ab210@seorf.ohiou.edu
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