Handling the Cicada invasion....

[3Hotdogs]

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.......

[spooky3]

1. Must be the difference between country cats and city slicker cats...

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

[OnionPatch]

5. My city cat eats them

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]

2. My corgi is eating them.

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]

3. My youngest ferral was disgusted with the new food when I put it down, she went right under ...

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

[iamateacher]

4. We have a huge wood spider

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