Tanglefoot wrote:
Cicada. I’ve watched them emerge from their nymphal case. The nymph emerges from the ground in the evening and climb onto a tree or rock or whatever is available nearby. The final emergence is a slow process. They don’t do anything fast not even flying.
The newly emerged adult is almost entirely white and slowly (again) color up overnight. They lay their eggs in the tips of branches that brown off and die. The branch tips fall off and the newly hatched nymphs burrow into the ground
Since the cicada has a 13 - 17 year life cycle, most fish live and die never having seen one. Trout, bass and other larger mouthed fish will eat them, but once the Cicada invasion is over you might as well tuck those lures and flies away for the next 13 - 17 years.
Cicada. I’ve watched them emerge from their nympha... (
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This was in the news a few weeks ago. THIS year 2020 is the 17th one. The map provided showed their hatching from North to South every few weeks apart. It will be a very noisy year in the woods.