The cicadas won't bother your garden. the suck on the sap of tree roots
when they are growing. This batch has been doing it for 17 years with
no harm done.

They will fascinate some people, and annoy others. Birds and other bug
eaters will love it. Your garden won't care one way or the other.


Ray



"Bob S." wrote in message
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In the Spring the media played up the coming swarm of cicadas(17 year
locusts), particularly in the Ohio River basin of the USA. Has the
hatch been as bad as predicted? Have they caused any damage to your
gardens or to any pets from eating them? Or was the media hype a
bust?

Bob S.