Emerging Brood X cicadas could damage trees, shrubs - Here's what you need to know
The holes cicadas emerge from allow sunlight, air, water, and nutrients into the soil at greater depths. Tom O'Dell, collections and natural areas specialist at U-M's Matthaei Botanical Gardens, recalls the last time 17-year cicadas visited the Ann Arbor area and offers answers to the commonly asked questions and offers the following advice. What was it like in the U-M botanical gardens the last time the Brood X cicadas emerged? I remember seeing cicadas in a grove of buckeye trees. There were thousands of individuals on the branches and trunks. And though they were concentrated in the buck...
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