On Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 3:32:41 PM UTC-4, micky wrote in alt.home.repair:
> If I put Tanglefoot on my cherry tree to keep the ants from eating the
> cherries, will it prevent the cicadas from having a happy life?
>
> Will they be unable to get to the branches where they do their thing?
>
> The cherries are a half-inch in diameter now, and I don't think the ants
> are interested yet. I didn't see any. But in the past the cherries
> were ready for me around May 2, and the ants arrived a day or two
> earlier. So I have about 11 days.
>
> OTOH, the cicadas have been promised for early may and here it is the
> 19th, and they're not here yet. I think the news reports are like the
> reports of a Chinese rover on Mars, when every one knows it was trucked,
> not flown and certainly not rocketed, to the Gobi desert. Just check
> within Infowars and you'll see that this is well known. It even reveals
> what is not well-known, that the Chinese use a light red filter on their
> camera to make the images look more like Mars.
>
> There actually are 3 cicada shells on lower branches of the cherry tree,
> but I don't know how they got there. Do the cicadas crawl up the trunk.
>
> What should I do to promote the well-being of our Hemiptera brothers?

For one thing, I heard that cicada insects taste yucky.