On 5/24/2021 12:28 PM, Transition Zone wrote:
> 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.
>

I did see on TV someone was enrobing them in chocolate and another place
was putting one on top of a cookie.

I did not order any.