[tn-bird] Re: cicadas
- From: jreese5@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:26:12 -0500
Don't turkeys eat cicadas? Besides the birds, I think that fox and coyote
eat these crunchy critters as well. My favorite dog of all time, I found as
a little starving puppy eating cicadas a few years ago when we had a cyclic
hatching in Mississippi (forgotten which cicada, and whether it was the 13
or the 17, etc.)
My parents noted that we had very little bird predation that year in our
blueberry orchard. I have also noticed that when it rained, the leaf litter
under the trees was carried down into the little holes the cicadas leave
when they burrow up from the roots, so that must be good for the soils,
better drainage, texture, organic matter, etc.
....all kinds of good things happen with these big natural cycles. Now if
we could just make something useful of all that noise they make!
Carol Reese
Ornamental Horticulture Specialist -Western District
University of Tennessee Extension Service
605 Airways Blvd.
Jackson TN 38301
901 425 4721 email jcreese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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