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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 09:48 AM 5/15/2008, you wrote:
> Locusts are grasshoppers not cicadas.  Cicadas don't eat anything in
> the adult form.  Enjoy their songs of joy- they are breeding.

I'm with Donna - I'd be more than happy to send the cicadas to you, 
Ernie & Megan, so that you can enjoy their deafening mating 
song.  I'd just as soon not have to witness and deal with the 
widespread destruction they'll visit upon my fruit & nut trees during 
oviposition - and the subsequent entry points for fireblight next year.


Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY