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3Hotdogs

(13,477 posts)
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 09:20 AM Jun 2021

Handling the Cicada invasion....

Daughter lives in (what passes for) rural New Jersey, Hunterdon County. She has 12 chickens, garden plants, a dog, an indoor cat and a feral cat AND LOADS OF CICADAS.

She puts food out for the feral and noticed that food bowl remained full. This went on for several days. Yesterday, the cat was spotted, hunting and crunching down on Cicada after Cicada.

Crunch, crunch, crunch.......

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Handling the Cicada invasion.... (Original Post) 3Hotdogs Jun 2021 OP
Must be the difference between country cats and city slicker cats... spooky3 Jun 2021 #1
My city cat eats them OnionPatch Jun 2021 #5
My corgi is eating them. The Jungle 1 Jun 2021 #2
My youngest ferral was disgusted with the new food when I put it down, she went right under ... marble falls Jun 2021 #3
We have a huge wood spider iamateacher Jun 2021 #4

spooky3

(36,293 posts)
1. Must be the difference between country cats and city slicker cats...
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 09:26 AM
Jun 2021

Mine love to hunt and bat them around, but don’t eat them.

OnionPatch

(6,234 posts)
5. My city cat eats them
Fri Jun 11, 2021, 05:16 AM
Jun 2021

But she eats anything. One of my dogs eats them like candy. The other two just like to play with them. The one who likes them is a puppy and this is his first summer. Next summer he’ll probably wonder where all the flying dog treats went to. 😆

 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
2. My corgi is eating them.
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 09:33 AM
Jun 2021

Watch out, when I walked under an apple tree a whole bunch flew away and my first thought was they were bees.
I went back to kinda chase them away. Just goofing around. Thing is when a whole bunch of them fly away they piss on you. They won that round.

marble falls

(62,378 posts)
3. My youngest ferral was disgusted with the new food when I put it down, she went right under ...
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 10:03 AM
Jun 2021

... the tree and dug up a cicada. The freeze really cut the cicada population down here in Texas.

iamateacher

(1,104 posts)
4. We have a huge wood spider
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 10:11 AM
Jun 2021

( Also known as a Huntsman spider) Outside our kitchen window. We also have thousands of cicadas. I believe those two are related.....

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