On Mon, 24 May 2021 13:09:24 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 5/24/2021 12:28 PM, Transition Zone wrote:
>> On Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 3:32:41 PM UTC-4, micky wrote in alt.home.repair:
>>> If I put Tanglefoot on my cherry tree to keep the ants from eating the
>>> cherries, will it prevent the cicadas from having a happy life?
>>>
>>> Will they be unable to get to the branches where they do their thing?
>>>
>>> The cherries are a half-inch in diameter now, and I don't think the ants
>>> are interested yet. I didn't see any. But in the past the cherries
>>> were ready for me around May 2, and the ants arrived a day or two
>>> earlier. So I have about 11 days.
>>>
>>> OTOH, the cicadas have been promised for early may and here it is the
>>> 19th, and they're not here yet. I think the news reports are like the
>>> reports of a Chinese rover on Mars, when every one knows it was trucked,
>>> not flown and certainly not rocketed, to the Gobi desert. Just check
>>> within Infowars and you'll see that this is well known. It even reveals
>>> what is not well-known, that the Chinese use a light red filter on their
>>> camera to make the images look more like Mars.
>>>
>>> There actually are 3 cicada shells on lower branches of the cherry tree,
>>> but I don't know how they got there. Do the cicadas crawl up the trunk.
>>>
>>> What should I do to promote the well-being of our Hemiptera brothers?
>>
>> For one thing, I heard that cicada insects taste yucky.
>>
>
>I did see on TV someone was enrobing them in chocolate and another place
>was putting one on top of a cookie.
>
>I did not order any.

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