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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

Cicadas don't hurt trees in adult stage.  Don't worry.  

---- Original Message ----
From: atbianca@yahoo.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] cicada
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 10:50:06 -0700 (PDT)

>Ginda,
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>    Thanks for the info.  I do seem to have a good amount of them in
>the neighborhood.  I have seen their exoskeletons, if they even refer
>to them as that.  I will keep a close eye on my plants for any
>decline in health.  
>I do remember seeing their ghostly skeletons on tree trunks in my
>front yard last year and didn't know what it could be from, but
>didn't notice any damage then.
>
>--- On Sat, 7/31/10, Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us> wrote:
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>From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
>Subject: [NAFEX] cicada
>To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 8:59 PM
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>On Jul 31, 2010, at 4:09 PM, anne bianca wrote:
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>Ouch!!  I guess you never know what your'e going to find out there. 
>Check out this picture I took of who I found in my tangelo...I think
>it is a cicada.  Hope he doesn't hurt my tree, I didn't know what he
>was at the time I took the photo!
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>Yup, that looks like a cicada.  They suck sap from trees when they
>are juvenile, but they grow very slowly, so they don't usually do
>much damage to trees, unless you have an awful lot of them.
>
>
>Ginda
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