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…
