http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2008/07/03/rotten-but-not-forgotten/ Dedicated to cicadas, the most amazing insects in the world. Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:25:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2008/07/03/rotten-but-not-forgotten/comment-page-1/#comment-59230 Kirk G Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:31:29 +0000 http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2008/07/03/rotten-but-not-forgotten/#comment-59230 How can you say it's winding down? Its just heating up around here! Why is that? How can you say it’s winding down? Its just heating up around here!
Why is that?

]]> http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2008/07/03/rotten-but-not-forgotten/comment-page-1/#comment-59085 Vanessa Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:06:56 +0000 http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2008/07/03/rotten-but-not-forgotten/#comment-59085 On July 4, my sister and I went to the Frances Crane wildlife sanctuary on Cape Cod to see what was left of the cicadas. Instead of the overwhelming din we'd heard 2 weeks before, we heard just a few individuals singing. We saw a few tired-looking adults, mostly females, mostly congregating on a few small wild cherry trees, which we called cicada retirement homes. The trees all around, especially the oaks, had incredible numbers of oviposition scars, which we had not seen 2 weeks before. Thousands of branch tips were dead from oviposition damage, but it looked like the trees would be OK. On July 4, my sister and I went to the Frances Crane wildlife sanctuary on Cape Cod to see what was left of the cicadas.
Instead of the overwhelming din we’d heard 2 weeks before, we heard just a few individuals singing. We saw a few tired-looking adults,
mostly females, mostly congregating on a few small wild cherry trees, which we called cicada retirement homes. The trees all
around, especially the oaks, had incredible numbers of oviposition scars, which we had not seen 2 weeks before. Thousands of
branch tips were dead from oviposition damage, but it looked like the trees would be OK.

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