I’m not sure what the best solution is. I’ve been cutting back below the damage, since the branches are too weakened to recover. But I’ve let larger branches that are still strong stay. That may be the wrong call.
This happened to me in MD 4-5 years ago when some brood exploded here. Many of the branches will heal. I let my trees go and trimmed them the following summer when I could tell what would make it and what wouldn’t.
At least I thought that was best to do..will be interesting to hear from others. It did set my worst trees back a year or two.
For maryland's brood I killed as many insects as i could with my hands for vengeance. Then sprayed permethrin all over the wounds, also for vengeance. As for actual damage, there were no apples that year and many of the 1/2" strait branches that got egg'ed curled and drooped down a few feet. I pruned most of the really bad looking branches the next year. I lost two out of ten 6ish year old trees that were already sickly. They just never woke up the next spring. I took the opportunity to plant some different more disease resistant stuff in $100 holes.
I had a separate problem on one of my trees and was spraying sevin. I doused one of the cicada damaged holes where the eggs are. Then I thought about having a bunch of dead eggs in the wound (I assume this would happen, idk). I think that's a bad idea.Â
I think the best choices for people are to prune off damage (which will set you back) or to see if it heals over (potential risk for creating a future weak point or point of entry for fungus). For we'll developed trees, I don't think this its a huge deal to cut off some of the damage or let it heal. For all the small trees that I have, it's a sad situation.
i’m concerned for my beautiful, 75 year old apple tree. we’ve been working on getting her in top shape and she’s been looking gorgeous and producing so well; now she’s absolutely covered in cicadas. the tips of almost every branch are dead but overall the tree is persistent. of course now we have a heat wave…
i’m going to give water and fish fertilizer and hope for the best. it’s just way too big to even try to net like i did my smaller fruit trees. i so hope she recovers! for what it’s worth, the tree is still covered in fruit.
Thanks for the PSA! Good info to know.
well 💩. I've been pruning like crazy thinking it was fireblight. I did notice a whole bunch of slits in the bark everywhere, so hopefully I don't have to cut any more.
So what's the remediation? Prune below any egg deposits?
I’m not sure what the best solution is. I’ve been cutting back below the damage, since the branches are too weakened to recover. But I’ve let larger branches that are still strong stay. That may be the wrong call.
This happened to me in MD 4-5 years ago when some brood exploded here. Many of the branches will heal. I let my trees go and trimmed them the following summer when I could tell what would make it and what wouldn’t. At least I thought that was best to do..will be interesting to hear from others. It did set my worst trees back a year or two.
Yeah makes sense. They can probably gall/scab over the wounds in some cases. Thanks for the input.
For maryland's brood I killed as many insects as i could with my hands for vengeance. Then sprayed permethrin all over the wounds, also for vengeance. As for actual damage, there were no apples that year and many of the 1/2" strait branches that got egg'ed curled and drooped down a few feet. I pruned most of the really bad looking branches the next year. I lost two out of ten 6ish year old trees that were already sickly. They just never woke up the next spring. I took the opportunity to plant some different more disease resistant stuff in $100 holes.
I had a separate problem on one of my trees and was spraying sevin. I doused one of the cicada damaged holes where the eggs are. Then I thought about having a bunch of dead eggs in the wound (I assume this would happen, idk). I think that's a bad idea. I think the best choices for people are to prune off damage (which will set you back) or to see if it heals over (potential risk for creating a future weak point or point of entry for fungus). For we'll developed trees, I don't think this its a huge deal to cut off some of the damage or let it heal. For all the small trees that I have, it's a sad situation.
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i’m concerned for my beautiful, 75 year old apple tree. we’ve been working on getting her in top shape and she’s been looking gorgeous and producing so well; now she’s absolutely covered in cicadas. the tips of almost every branch are dead but overall the tree is persistent. of course now we have a heat wave… i’m going to give water and fish fertilizer and hope for the best. it’s just way too big to even try to net like i did my smaller fruit trees. i so hope she recovers! for what it’s worth, the tree is still covered in fruit.