The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-03-13
The Habits And The Ego
Laying OF Pests
And Remedies And Pre-.
VGntivGS Of Damage
(5y C. w. Montgomery
Cicada or "Seven-vear" Locust

The Periodical Cicada or Seven
year Locust" will appear during the
summer of 191A over the following
counties: Ashland, Athens, Belmont,
Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Craw
ford, Cuyahoga, Delaware, Erie, Fair
field, Franklin, Gallia, Geauga, Guern-
sey, Harrison, Hooking, Holmes, Hur-
on, Jackson, Jefferson, Knox, Lake,
Licking, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina,
Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum,
Noble, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Portage,
Ricbland, Ross, Sandusky, Scioto, Sen
eca, Stark, Summit, Tuscarawas, Vim
ton, Washington and Wayne.
This 1914 brood is vigorous one
and may be expected to inflict consid-
cradle injury to young orchard trees
throughout it's range. Owing to the
trimmings out of forest areas over the
territory occupied by the insects, the
brood is gradually thinning down and
the numbers will doubtless be much
less abundant in many localities than
they were seventeen years ago.
Character of Damage
The chief damage by the Cicada is
done by the adult females, through
their habits of egglaying. The female
is provided with a saw-like ovipositor
and with this she makes incisions or
cuts into the twigs of trees and some
times into the trunks of young trees.
A row of these punctures Is made
longitudinally along the limb or twig,
each being made double so that it con-
sists of two pockets, each pocket con-
tanning double row of eggs. The
smaller tWigs of such trees as oak,
hickory and apple are preferred, but
the tw!gs or stems Of almost any tree
or herbaceous plant may be utilized.
The damage to large shade or forest
trees is not usually excessive, though
thousands of the insects may occupy a
single tree. But in newly planted or
chards, especially Of apple, or in those
from one to three years old, the dam
age is likely to be serious and may
be disastrous. Peach, pear and grape
are also often seriously injured. Or
chards surrounded by woods or locat-
ed on recent clearings are most apt to
suffer. The injured twigs are quite
readily broken off by the winds, eth
er falling to the ground or remaining
suspended during the remainder OF the
summer with the brown dry leaves
still clinging to them.
Recovery from injury is usually ap
proximately complete, in case OF large
trees, in two or three years. Young
orchard trees, if otherwise healthy and
In vigorous growth, generally heal in
few years so that the scars from the
wounds can hardly be detected. But
newly planted trees, which have taken
but little root at the time OF attack
heal more slowly and may not wholly
recover for many years. Borers are
apt to seek entrance into the woot
through such openings and the woolly
apple aphis is quite certain to collec
in the assures, thus formed, through
the bark of its preferred host-trees.
The adult insects of both sexes
thrust their needle-like bills through
the bark and imbibe the sap of boil
orchard and shade trees. While th'
damage, thus inflicted, is believed t.
be small, it is obvious that 1t is no
desirable to have large numbers o
them sucking the sap from newl,
transplanted trees, especially in time
of drouth.
The larvae of the Cicada dwell un
derground for seventeen years, an
during practically all of this time gail
{ their nourishment by sucking sap fror
the rootlets of trees or herbaceou