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With cicadas emerging, Fairmont nets young trees

Times West Virginian photo by Hannah Rosche The City of Fairmont has covered six newly planted dogwood trees with bug netting to protect them from Brood V cicadas. The females make incisions in smaller tree branches to lay their eggs. This can cause the tree limbs to cut off nutrients flowing to their leaves.
Times West Virginian photo by Hannah Rosche
The City of Fairmont has covered six newly planted dogwood trees with bug netting to protect them from Brood V cicadas. The females make incisions in smaller tree branches to lay their eggs. This can cause the tree limbs to cut off nutrients flowing to their leaves.

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Remember 1999?

Everyone was worrying about Y2K. “The Sixth Sense” was the top-grossing film of that year, and Britney Spears was a new emerging artist.

Something else emerged that year as well — Brood V cicadas.

While one may want to bring back the trends of the late 1990s, only one thing from 1999 is making a comeback. Unfortunately, they are the Brood V cicadas.

Brood V cicadas emerge every 17 years. This particular generation has been in a larval state underground since 1999. Once cicadas reach a point where they can pupate, they emerge.

“They primarily emerge to mate…

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