06-01-04 | News

  Each emergence marks the beginning of the end of a long life cycle for Cicadas. After the female lays her eggs in the tree slits, her eggs hatch and the nymphs drop to the ground. They burrow into the soil beneath the tree and spend the next 17 years eating the trees roots. As the day they are to emerge approaches, the nymphs start pushing mud up out of their burrows. People often see these mud chimneys all over their yards. On the day they emerge, they immediately climb up the nearest tree, or bush, or pole where they shed their skins and molt into adult cicadas. These emergences aren?EUR??,,????'?????<