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Thread ID: 128888 2013-01-22 00:40:00 Where have all the cicadas gone? Roscoe (6288) PC World Chat
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1324218 2013-01-23 20:13:00 Bees adore Borage flowers

And lavender. We call our bushes bee factories as they are always absolutely covered in them. Bumble bees though, not honey bees, unfortunately. Like Digby, I hardly ever see any of those around here anymore. :(
FoxyMX (5)
1324219 2013-01-23 21:59:00 Good idea on Lavender as I found this year tomatoes look like they could have used more Bumble bee's for pollination as there has been a lot of un-pollinated flowers certainly has not been cold during flowering

Had plenty of attention this year as well
Lawrence (2987)
1324220 2013-01-24 06:42:00 www.teara.govt.nz Good link on life cycle of NZ cicadas only 3-5 years apparently! PPp (9511)
1324221 2013-01-24 06:48:00 I've been finding them regularly around the house and feeding them to my cat while I'm outside watching him. It keeps him amused, and it's not like it's an unnatural thing for him to be eating.

As neat as they are, I do find them humming in the hundreds to be quite irritating and deafening.
8ftmetalhaed (14526)
1324222 2013-01-26 03:25:00 Jut thought I'd update this, heard one just before :D It is a great sound with the warm weather. Nomad (952)
1324223 2013-01-26 09:24:00 They are staring to appear here in Nelson now, "Good things take time" Arnie (6624)
1324224 2013-01-27 03:16:00 Strange! I hear them all year round. I'm afraid that my cicadas' are called tinnitus, Cicadas must be very loud before I notice them.+1.
Although I was out in the garden today and did hear some - certainly not very loud though.
Tony (4941)
1324225 2013-01-27 04:53:00 Heard my first one this year as I was driving down the road.
:)
Trev (427)
1324226 2013-01-27 06:26:00 Yup - here in Auckland yesterday and today.... johcar (6283)
1324227 2013-01-27 09:38:00 Many loud little sebastians here here tonight when I got home. R2x1 (4628)
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