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South Hill, Virginia

Was anyone planting pumpkins 17 years ago that remembers if these guys like to munch on AGs?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040330/us_nm/science_cicadas_dc_3

3/31/2004 6:58:06 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

Wasn't planting AG's but our infestation was about 8 years ago...and most of the damage was in the top of the trees...they lay the eggs at the tips of the branches and they fell off all fall.pretty sure this is a mating thing that the larva are already fat when they come out of the ground crack the shells and spread they're wings.

3/31/2004 7:26:50 AM

Western Pa.

I don't think they'll bother your pumpkins(or plants). I remember working at a nuke plant during "the big hatch", and there were thousands of them everywhere. They like too land on something tall (like trees or people), and then immediately crawl their way upward as high as they can go. (I've also heard they're great with bbq sauce!)

3/31/2004 7:47:17 AM

Eveleth MN

do any of you guys have to deal with Tent caterpillar (ARMYWORMS) at all, we get hit HARD every 8 years or so and they eat pretty much everything in site thats green.

3/31/2004 5:27:25 PM

Norton, MA

We got them here. Though they come about 3 times during the year and only make tents in/eat the cherry treas. Alex.

3/31/2004 5:37:58 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Mature adult Ciciadas shouldn't bother pumpkins. Though their larvae can do damage to roots.

Tent caterpillars & other lepodoptora are easy to control with a cool new material called "Conserve". It's a biological fermentation of a bacterium found living under barrels in a rum distillery. Safe, fast, & effective. Small tents are best cut out & squished or burned.

3/31/2004 6:53:18 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

These are way to ugly to eat killer...I avoided them like the plague....yikes...that they were.

3/31/2004 8:07:14 PM